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Essay / Technology In “Growing UScial” by Gary Chapman - 1028
The media does not advertise the danger and effects of sexual performance, sex is widely spread in the media and on the Internet. This risk is a reality in the lives of American adolescents. Although the teen pregnancy rate has fallen in the United States, it is twice as low in Europe and nine times as high as in Japan. And “sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise.” (54) According to James P. Steyer, the author of “The Other Parent,” “a quarter of sexually active adolescents – about four million children – are infected with STDs each year” (54). the author of “The Other Parent”, the most worrying reports are those of AIDS. AIDS is the leading cause of loss among the younger generation between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. (56) Those who were affected by AIDS were in their twenties and were infected at a young age..