Benefits_of_Condom_Distribution_in_High_schools

Benefits of Condom Distribution in High schools Benefits of Condom Distribution in Schools With an extremely high percentage of sexually active teens, the United States holds the title of the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, and abortion among teens in North America and Europe. Concerned parents, educators, and healthcare workers cannot decide what to do about this alarming problem, caused by unprotected sexual intercourse. Condom distribution in high schools represents an effective way to protect sexually active teenagers from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Availability of condoms in high schools does not increase rates of teenage sexual activity, but rather increases condom use among already sexually active teenagers. Among American teenagers, condom unavailability ranks as the number one obstacle for safe sex (“Briefing” 5). A survey conducted by the Center for Population Options Teen Council examined the accessibility of contraception in drugstores and convenience stores in Washington, D.C. and found that: “One-third of the stores kept condoms behind the counter, forcing teens to ask for them. Only thirteen percent of the stores had signs that clearly marked where contraceptives were shelved. Adolescent girls asking for assistance encountered resistance or condemnation from store clerks forty percent of the condom, sexually, high, school, students, schools, transmitted, condoms, availability, teenagers, sexual, pregnancy, education, new, distribution, diseases, active, york, teens, teenage, rates, programs, disease, chicago, sex, raab, public, one, intercourse, hiv, briefing, available, among, activity, thousand, thirteen, stores, rate, percent, making, increase, francoeur, city, aids, without, unprotected, three, study, society, six