Recently, an issue with unwanted
pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers has arisen. Each
day, more and more cases of each are reported due to the lack of use of
contraceptive techniques in teenagers.
As article writer Milly Dawson
notes, a recent study by the Journal of
Adolescent Health found that parents of teenage girls nowadays would rather
see their children being offered short-term contraceptive methods, rather than
the long-term, more effective methods. This study involved a phone survey that
involved determining parents’ attitudes and behavior to the types of contraception.
It seems that the more accepting parents are of their daughter’s autonomy, the
more accepting they are to the more effective, long-term types of
contraception. This study stated that IUDs are the most effective way to
prevent teen pregnancy, but it is not the most accepted by the parents of
teens.
According to an updated clinical
opinion from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, IUDs have
the highest effective rate of preventing unwanted pregnancy. The opinion also
states that as teenage sexual intercourse rates increase, so must the use of
the long-term IUDs. The teenage generation currently mostly believes that
condoms and other short-term forms of contraception are the way to go. Charles
Bankhead of MedPage Today writes that
the awareness and availability of the long-term IUDs is low. Meaning, teenagers
today are way more prone to know about the short-term methods of contraception
rather than the long-term methods.
Bankhead also writes that the easiest way for teenagers to get their
hands on the long-term contraception would definitely be a public clinic.
Overall, the authors Milly Dawson
and Charles Bankhead have very similar finds in their articles. If teens become
more aware and parents accept more the idea of IUDs, the levels of teen
pregnancy should decline.
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