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A growing problem in the teenage age group for the last few years has been, teenage pregnancy. Shows like 16 and pregnant, show teens still in high school that have had sex and wound up pregnant. A 16 year old can barely take care of them what makes them think they could handle another human being, let alone a child. The problem here is the lack of proper sexual education. The teens now days are not given the proper amount of sexual education they need, as well as the easiest access to protection for sex. In some states things like birth control, and condoms can be given out for free at clinics, even high schools. According to, http://www.livestrong.com/article/12504-teen-pregnancy-rates-usa/, there are over 750,000 unplanned teen pregnancies annually. Other than condoms being able to protect from pregnancy, they also protect an individual from the STD categories, most importantly the HIV factor. A lot of teens now a days think they are invincible to the disease, and choose not to use condoms, In 2004, the CDC estimates that more than 18,000 young people, ages 13 to 24, were living with HIV/AIDS (in the
35 areas with confidential name-based HIV reporting); almost 5,000 were diagnosed in 2004 alone; representing 13% of all people diagnosed that year. So what ends up happening, the spread of HIV/AIDS, as well as other simple STDs such as herpes, warts, Approximately one in four sexually active young adults, ages 15 to 24, contracts an STD each year. All it takes is just a simple use of a condom, and you could save your own life as well as the life of a future child.