Giving sex away like it’s a piece of gum.
Sex lost it’s meaning.
Questions:
Why is this a problem?
What is the big deal?
How can this be solved?
Why don’t people want to wait till marriage?
Answers:
You can have unplanned pregnancies
You can get STD’s
Teen mothers are less likely to go to college.
Teen moms are more likely to be — and stay — single parents.
Babies born to teen moms face greater health risks.
Teen moms face health risks too.
Teen moms are at high risk of poverty, which can make caring for a baby very hard.
One in 4 teen girls has an STI (Sexual Transmitted Infections)
Argument Parts:
One in every five teenage girls will become pregnant during high school (1)
At least 1 in 4 Americans will contract a STD in their lifetime. Teenagers make up one fourth of all new STD infections. (2)
The United States has the highest teenage pregnancy rate and infant mortality rate of all developed countries (2)
Approximately 1 million teenagers every year become pregnant. Up to 95 % of those pregnancies were unplanned and unwanted. (2)
For every sexually active teenager, one in four will get an STD within one year. (2)
And young people, ages 15-24, account for half of the nearly 20 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported each year. (3)
Audience:
People who think having sex isn’t a big deal.
They stand for having sex
They would resist the urge to listen to the meaning behind sex and why you should wait
Thesis Statement: In this generation teens and adults are giving sex away like it's a piece of gum and it needs to come to a stop.
Works Cited:
"Teenage Pregnancy." CQ Researcher by CQ Press. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2014.
"Teen Sex." CQ Researcher by CQ Press. N.p., 16 Sept. 2005. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
"Teen Sex." CQ Researcher 15 June 2013. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.