D#6, HW#8, Taking Detailed Notes

Boonstra, Heather. (April 2002).Legislators craft alternative vision of sex education to counter abstinence-only drive. (Issues & Implications). The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, 5, p1(3). Retrieved July 14, 2007, from Health Reference Center Academic via Thomson Gale: http://find.galegroup.com.ezp.mc.maricopa.edu/itx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=HRCA&docId=A86042335&source=gale&userGroupName=mcc_mesa&version=1.0

2. Main Point of source: Abstinence-only sex education programs are not working in the United States. There is a increased rate of teenage pregnancy and teen STD spread because teens are not being taught about contraceptives etc.

3&4

• Promoting sex education that includes information about contraceptive use to avoid unintended teen pregnancy and STD spread along with delivering a positive messages is a better way to promote sex education than abstinence-only.
• The effectiveness of abstinence-only sex education had not been illustrated; in fact it has assisted in the increased teen pregnancy rate and STD spread.
• Although teen sexual activity is not uncommon in most countries, the U.S. is booming with unexpected teen pregnancies.
• New proposal called the Family Life Education Act

5. Purpose: To illustrate that abstinence-only sex education programs do not work and suggest other programs that may be more beneficial.

Intended Audience: I think her intended audience is the American population in general. I think this because she gives general information about the topic of abstinence-only sex education and discusses other alternatives that people can fight for.

Author: Heather Boonstra

Topic: Abstinence-Only Sex Education

6. This source will help me in answering my research question because it gives concrete evidnece supporting my argument. It gives goodstatistics about how abstinence-only sex education programs are not working. It will also help in writing my research paper because it gives suggestions for "safe-sex" education programs. It also talks about new legislation fighting for "safe-sex" education.

7. In my own personal copy of the article I highlighted the information I may want to quote. Some highlights include.....

• "Every year, roughly four million teens acquire an STD. Young people aged 15-19 account for one-third of all gonorrhea and chlamydia cases in the United States. On average, two young people in the United States are infected with HIV every hour of every day."
• "Research conducted by The Alan Guttmacher Institute between 1998 and 2001 indicates that U.S. teens are more likely to become pregnant because they are less likely to use any contraceptive method than young people in other developed countries and are also less likely to use methods that in actual use have the highest effectiveness rates, such as the pill ("Teen Pregnancy: Trends and Lessons Learned," TGR, February 2002, page 7)."
• "In a 1998 poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and ABC Television, 81% of adults said that sex education programs should teach both abstinence and pregnancy and STD prevention; only 18% thought programs should teach only abstinence."