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This is a 7 page paper that provides an overview of pregnancy prevention programs in low income communities. A review of literature is conducted. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to educate teenagers about the risks of unprotected sexual activity. However, the effectiveness of these programs has been varied. This literature review will attempt to assess what factors correspond to
effective programs, and what risks are associated with ineffective programs. One of the most important notes to make when discussing the efficacy of teen pregnancy prevention programs is the reality
that the makeup of such programs has had to adopt an ideological shift in the last few decades. In the early 1990s, the majority of these programs in the United
States adopted a policy of "abstinence only", which is to say the only solution to avoiding pregnancy that the programs offered was for teenage girls to forego sexual relations entirely
(Thiel & McBride, 1992). Obviously, such an approach was flawed because, while it satisfied the moralistic requirements of a conservative society squeamish about underage sexuality, it did not account for
the hormonal and social reality of teenagers themselves; to wit, teenagers have always had sex with one another, and always will, and preaching abstinence is not an effective means to
combat pregnancies resulting from these inevitable sexual interactions. A 1992 study looked at the long term efficacy of these programs when put into practice, especially when they targeted "low-income inner-city
minority youth" (Thiel & McBride, 1992). They did this by examining the "premarital sexual and martial attitudes" of female participants in the programs prior to their undertaking the program, and
afterwards, with the outcome of the study suggesting that the programs resulted only in diminishing the participants overall attitudes towards sexual activity in general; in other words, some participants were
persuaded to "swear off" sexual activities altogether for life, but few embraced the actual message of the program, which was to only reject sex until the point of marriage (Thiel
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