Sexuality Education: What Adolescents' Rights RequireRoger J. R. Levesque Nova Publishers, 2003 - 191 Seiten Adolescents live in a changing world. Those changes come in the readily recognisable form of pressing familial, educational, economic, informational, cultural and global challenges. We have yet to see how these transformations will impact adolescents' personal relationships and their place in society. We do know, however, that current approaches to the socialisation of adolescents raise important concerns as parents and social institutions respond to challenges. This book explores these changes and challenges by examining the extent to which we may foster adolescent development in ways that respect and foster adolescents' basic rights to relationships they deem appropriate, fulfilling, and worthy of protection. It also explores those changes and rights from a view that acknowledges the need to respect the rights of others, that recognises that adolescents' rights are not for them alone. Contents: Preface; The Legal Foundations of Adolescents' Education; The Place and Nature of Sexuality Education in Society; Revisiting the Traditional Rationale for Sexuality Education: Pregnancy, Developmental Timing, and its Legal Responses; Combating Relationship Violence: Expanding Adolescents' |
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Revisiting the Traditional Rationale for Sexuality Education Pregnancy Developmental Timing and its Legal Responses | 49 |
Confronting New Challenges and Adolescents Needs | 79 |
Combating Relationship Violence Expanding Adolescents Rights to Support Useful Sexuality Education | 81 |
Engaging Juvenile Justice Systems Taking Sexuality Protection and Rehabilitation Seriously | 111 |
Facing Diversity Recognizing Unmet and Invisible Sexual Needs to Foster Respect for Difference | 133 |
Harnessing the Media Providing Adolescents with the Power to Participate Effectively in a Sexualized Popular Culture | 157 |
Index | 185 |
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abortion abstinence programs abstinence-only abuse address adolescents adolescent behavior adolescent pregnancy adolescent relationship violence adolescent sexual behavior adults approach appropriate comprehensive sexuality education concern condoms contraception contraceptive behavior criminal curricula curriculum dating violence decisions delinquency developmental disabled diversity domestic violence effective efforts factors Family Planning Perspectives female focus gender harm human sexuality impact implemented important increased influence intervention involved issues Journal juvenile justice system Kirby laws legal system Levesque limited male mandates media literacy National outcomes parental rights peer pregnancy and parenthood problematic problems protect youth psychological public schools punitive responses recognize regarding rehabilitative religious responses to adolescent risk role School District school officials school-based sex education sexual activity sexual harassment sexual intercourse sexuality education programs sexually transmitted diseases social society Society of Sisters statutes statutory rape studies teach teen teen dating violence teenage pregnancy victims
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 11 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
Seite 88 - We therefore hold that government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.
Seite 12 - ... it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of American people to recite as a part of a religious program carried on by government.
Seite 87 - Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Seite 12 - State and local taxation to teach the theory or doctrine that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals...
Seite 12 - The establishment clause, unlike the free exercise clause, does not depend upon any showing of direct governmental compulsion and is violated by the enactment of laws which establish an official religion whether those laws operate directly to coerce nonobserving individuals or not.
Seite 67 - Teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems; d. Teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexually activity; e. Teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects; f.
Seite 179 - ... the power of the state to control the conduct of children reaches beyond the scope of its authority over adults...
Seite 13 - The explanation lies in the lesson of history that was and is the inspiration for the Establishment Clause, the lesson that in the hands of government what might begin as a tolerant expression of religious views may end in a policy to indoctrinate and coerce. A state-created orthodoxy puts at grave risk that freedom of belief and conscience which are the sole assurance that religious faith is real, not imposed. The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as in the 18th Century...
Seite 67 - Abstinence education is defined as: an "educational or motivational program" which (A) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity...
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Sexuality Education: What Adolescents' Rights Require Roger J. R. Levesque Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 |