Educating young women on health issues and making wise choices.?

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Why do you feel it is important that young women are educated on health issues and making wise choices. How can an organization show their support.

This is not directed towards me but I just want to hear peoples answers. I am helping a non profit organization out by getting peoples opinions. So please no smart comments as this is an adult conversation for mature people who want to participate in a good cause. Thank you.
Great answers so far. But what can other businesses in the community do to support this organization?
 
It is very important to educate girls and young women on health issues and making wise informed decisions. Just look at some of the questions this site gets asked every day.

Why can't girls and young women talk to there mums any more? I am sure there are some web sites that can give reputable information to girls and young women.

I think it is sad that a 13yo child says that she is pregnant and doesn't know what to do. What happened to her original decision to have unprotected sex?

You need to be very open and liberal, which may distress some parents and community elders. Girls and young women go through massive changes from the age of 10 through to the early 20's sometimes. So they need proper information - not a lecture on the sins of sex as a teenager.

Go for it and I hope you help a lot of lost girls and young women; that is lost in their development.

Best wishes

Abide in Peace
 
Educating young women about safe and healthy choices is a must nowadays because girls are becoming sexually active at ages younger than 12 and due to ignorance, curiosity, precocity or something else they get into trouble easily. Trouble meaning that they experiment with drugs, sexual activity and end up addicted to drugs, pregnant and/or contracting an STD, HIV or AIDS before turning 18.

Unfortunately, not everybody is on the same page and due to different factors such as religion and politics, sexual education in schools is not always implement. Furthermore, some parents don't want to have the "sex talk" because they either feel no need to or don't know how to approach it.

Organizations such as the one you describe should reach young girls to make them know that they're not alone. They should know about peer pressure or boys lieing to get in their pants. They should know that it takes one time to get something for life -that in sometimes could be fatal- or to get pregnant.

Forums like this one are supportive even there are people that come to them to put others down, post rude or lude comments, or post stupidities.
 
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