Teen pregnancies can be prevented in different ways. For many teenagers, pregnancies are prevented by using the so called “safe sex” practices and these include the use of birth control pills like RU486 as well as pregnancy prevention devices including spermicides or intra-uterine devices http://www.allaboutlifechallenges.org/teen-pregnancy-prevention-faq.htm.

Perhaps the best advice in as far as preventing pregnancies for young adults is to completely abstain from sex before marriage. This is the only way that sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies and unwanted lifetime bonds to others can be prevented with absolute certainty http://www.allaboutlifechallenges.org/teen-pregnancy-prevention-faq.htm.

The Department of Health and Human Sciences is steadfast in its quest to deter teen pregnancies and is encouraging abstinence in adolescents through information dissemination and education programs http://www.policyalmanac.org/health/archive/hhs_teenage_pregnancy.shtml. Sex education is seen to be 50% more effective in preventing teenage pregnancies compared to abstinence-only education http://www.mahalo.com/answers/does-sex-education-help-prevent-unwanted-teenage-pregnancy.

Many parents find the issue of adolescent pregnancies to be a sensitive subject more so with the knowledge of how can change lives, put one's dreams to naught and forever change a young person's direction in life http://www.parenting-child-development.com/teen-pregnancy.html.

According to a recent poll, Americans are of the opinion that teenage pregnancies are a consequential health problem and though there is support for birth control and abstinence initiatives there is a general consent that more must be done to prevent these pregnancies http://www.670kboi.com/rssItem.asp?feedid=116&itemid=29618205.

Research shows that the provision of some form of sex education has facilitated a decline in the number of unwanted teen pregnancies http://www.mahalo.com/answers/does-sex-education-help-prevent-unwanted-teenage-pregnancy. In as far as schools are concerned the recommendations for teen pregnancy prevention can be classified into three i.e. what is learned, what competencies are advocated for a successful future, and the part adults play in discouraging these pregnancies http://missourifamilies.org/features/adolescentsarticles/adolesfeature3.htm.

Parents and other adults are especially responsible for advising their teenage children against pregnancies. This is in light of the fact that teen sexual behaviors are altered most effectively with ample sex education programs http://www.mahalo.com/answers/does-sex-education-help-prevent-unwanted-teenage-pregnancy.

These are some of the tips they can use to do this:

• • Providing candid personal views about sexual morals and attitudes
• • Having early, frequent and to-the-point talks with children about sex
• • Supervision and monitoring of children and teenagers
• • Finding out who your children's friends and families are
• • Shunning early, repeated and constant dating
• • Discouraging girls from dating boys significantly older than they are and sons from having strong relationships with girls much younger than they are
• • Motivating teenagers to have higher goals for their future that are much better than premature pregnancies and parenthood
• • Being clear about how highly you value education and your equally high expectations for their future
• • Establish the media your children are exposed to with an aim to discourage any that propagates behavior that may lead to early sex and pregnancies
• • Build a strong and close relationship with your children right from the start so as to effectively communicate all these preventative steps listed above

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