A program designed to prevent adolescent pregnancies by encouraging abstinence or proper use of contraceptives should include:
A. a lecture about the immorality of intercourse outside marriage.
B. discussion about safer sex as being responsible, mature, and more worry free.
C. emphasis that they can only obtain contraceptives if their parents approve.
D. advice about which contraceptive the nurse believes is best for them.
B
To influence adolescents, try to get them to think positively about their ability to make re-sponsible, informed choices. Adolescents often get pregnant because they do not understand reproductive physiology, their risk for pregnancy, and how contraception works. Lecturing adolescents and telling them what you think they should do is unlikely to be effective. They do need to know that they can seek health care without parental approval.
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