(E) evaluate influences and pressures to become sexually
active and why it is wrong to violate another person's boundaries
and manipulate or threaten someone into sexual activity.
(21) Reproductive and sexual health--anatomy, puberty,
reproduction, and pregnancy. The student analyzes adolescent development,
the process of fertilization, and healthy fetal development. The student
is expected to:
(A) analyze the significance of hormonal, physical,
emotional, and social changes in males and females and their relationship
to sexual health;
(B) list factors such as heredity, environment, STDs/STIs,
and the mother's health and nutrition that can affect fetal development
from conception through birth; and
(C) describe the emotional changes that may occur during
and after pregnancy, including postpartum depression, and identify
resources for support and treatment.
(22) Reproductive and sexual health--sexual risk. The
student understands that there are risks associated with sexual activity
and that abstinence from sexual activity is the only 100% effective
method to avoid risks. The student is expected to:
(A) analyze the options available to teenage parents
such as parenting or the process of adoption and the legal rights
of parties involved;
(B) evaluate long-term or lifetime effects of bacterial
and viral STDs/STIs, including infertility and cancer;
(C) identify community resources, minors' right to
consent under certain circumstances, and the importance of parent
or other trusted adult support for STD/STI testing and treatment;
(D) analyze the effectiveness and the risks and failure
rates (human-use reality rates) of barrier protection and other contraceptive
methods, including how they work to reduce the risk of STDs/STIs and
pregnancy;
(E) identify the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing
the transmission of the most common types of HPV, a virus that may
cause genital warts and head and neck cancer, cervical cancer, anal
cancer, or other cancers that may occur in males and females;
(F) analyze the benefits of abstinence from sexual
activity, including focusing on personal development and encouraging
individuals to build healthy relationships not complicated by sexual
involvement;
(G) assess support from parents and other trusted adults
and create strategies, including building peer support, to be abstinent
or for return to abstinence if sexually active;
(H) investigate and summarize legal aspects of sexual
activity with a minor person, including the legal age of consent,
statutory rape, aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, and indecency
with a child; and
(I) investigate and summarize current laws relating
to sexual offenses such as sexual harassment, abuse, and assault.
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