Adolescent Sexuality: Protective Strategies

One of the key issues in adolescent sexuality is protection. Adolescents are not only vulnerable to the same sexually transmitted diseases as adults but are much less likely to employ contraception, making them more likely to become pregnant and/or contract a lethal disease. The protection of adolescents against the physical, emotional, and social consequences of early sexual activity falls upon parents, schools, youth organizations, churches, and society as a whole, yet even with all of these agents employing some type of protective strategy, adolescent sexuality and its concomitant disease, illegitimacy, and emotional ravages are still rampant. Furthermore, the outgrowth of illegitimacy has contributed to a secon

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