We are living in a
technological era. Nearly everything we do requires it. But what we still lack
is information. In the Health Behavior
News Service, Milly Dawson showed the results of the lack of information
about contraceptive methods by parents.
Milly Dawson shows that
nowadays, rates of unintended contraceptive have increased although the methods
of contraception have improved more and more and the use of contraceptive has
increased. Because teenagers tend not to use condoms consistently during sex,
they run the risk of becoming pregnant or being infected by an STD. Imagine that
a girl comes to her boyfriend’s room but they do not have any condoms or pills.
The boy may promise that they will engage in oral sex, and nothing else. But
“nothing else” happens, and then the girl is pregnant. That’s why although more
and more contraceptive methods are available, the rates unintended pregnancies
are still high.
However, their parents can give their children some advice about contraceptives. The influence of parents’ attitudes toward their daughters and sons is very effective. Unfortunately, parents, too, prefer condoms rather than long-acting contraceptive methods and so do doctors. The survey shows that parents accept their daughters' use of birth control pills more than they do long-acting contraceptive methods such as IUDs. Parents do not accept the long-acting methods because of societal attitudes and U.S. historical events around the Dalkon shield. They are worry about how safe such methods are when their daughters use them.
However, it is more
dangerous when adolescents use short-acting contraceptive methods with their
high failure rates. Sometimes, they forget to use them or use them properly. On
the other hand, long-term contraceptives work all the time, once installed.
Thus, using long-acting contraceptive methods is perfect choice for preventing
being pregnant, provided they are used along with condoms in order to prevent
STDs.
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