Toccarra McEachern
Professor Melissa Tetterton
English 1200-078
21 March 2012
Annotated
Bibliography
Espiritu, Stephanie. YAHOO! VOICES. Yahoo! Inc., 2010. Web.
20 March 2012.
This source is giving information
on how important it is for parents to actively be involved in their kids’
lives. It tries to convince parents to
get their children involved in activities at school and church and to give them
the information on what the bible says about their decisions on having sex
before marriage. The information adds to the conversation by suggesting ways to fix the problem of teenagers participating in premarital sex. This is important because premarital sex can result in STDs and babies that were unprepared for. More specifically the source mentions that parents should get their teens involved in extracurricular activities to stay busy in their lives outside of school.
Guttmacher Institute. "Facts on American Teens' Sexual
and Reproductive Health." In Brief:
Fact Sheet (2012): 1-4. Web. 20
March 2012.
This source is giving a collection of most of
the facts about teens who engage in premarital sex and their health. A couple of areas it hits on are the amount
of sexual activity teens are having in America and the use of
contraceptives. The authors give useful
information on how premarital sex is evolving more and more in the United
States. These statistics contribute to the overly repeated fact that teenagers should practice abstinence. It adds more factual segments to the paper and adds credibility and proof.
Nelson, Tom. "The Bible:
Sex, Intimacy, Relationships, & Dating." Youtube.com. 20 March
This video tells the viewer about
what God says about sex and how he created it for married couples. The speaker tries to convince the audience to
remain abstinent because there are many benefits from God that will result from
this decision. I can incorporate this source into my paper because it gives information on the most important reason one should be abstinent which is because God says to.
Paul, Pamela. "A Is For
Abstinence". The New York Times.
New York Times, 5 Nov. 2010. Web.
20
March 2012.
This article tells about how the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that high school students who
are abstinent or celibate have better grades than those who are not. It was also found by two universities that
high school students who do have sex but are in a romantic relationship also
have good grades. The article is
suggesting that students should stay away from sex so they can completely focus
on school and do what is right which is to abstain from premarital sex. It compliments the issue at hand by stating an important benefit that can result from abstaining from having sex before marriage. This article has a higher message in it than just grades that students get as a result of having sex. This article shows that students who practice abstinence will be more successful later in life because they are the ones getting the best educations because they are not distracted by sexual activity or other peer pressures.
Planned Parenthood
Greater Orlando. Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando, 2012. Web. 20
March 2012.
This website is committed to
helping people with their sexual health. They have different pages on their
site, organizations, and hotlines educating readers on how to be safe with sex
or to even be abstinent and prevent it. The site contributes to my paper by giving the readers a place to go for help and more information in case they are interested.
"The Teen Pregnancy Epidemic." Tyra Banks Show. Prod. Tyra Banks. The
CW. YouTube, 24
July
2010. Web.
These interviews the famous model
produced on her show were with teenage girls who either want babies or have
babies. These girls are under 17 years old.
They are engaging in outrageous premarital sex and Tyra is trying to
convince them to turn their selves around and be smart young ladies. This episode contributes well to the issue of premarital sex by showing America how it is really a problem amongst young girls. This episode gave me specific examples to use in my paper about the hardships teenage mothers go through by interviewing young girls who have already been through this "wanting babies" stage that many teenage girls go through.
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