contraceptives

Discusses various aspects of sexual activity and birth control for both male and female teens.

Explains reasons for using birth control (including abstinence) to prevent pregnancy and disease; provides options for making a decision and getting help; and describes available choices.

Explores controversies related to access to birth control for teens; provides varying perspectives on how the availability of birth control to teens became controversial, whether schools should make birth control available to teens, should parental consent be required, should abstinence be the sole birth control method taught to teens, and how access to contraception affects teen pregnancy rates.

Contains fourteen articles that provide a variety of perspectives on issues related to birth control, discussing the role of birth control in sex education programs, and birth control access and restrictions.

Traces the history of contraceptives in the United States, profiling the men and women who overcame social and technological challenges to create condoms, the pill, cervical caps, and other forms of birth control.