19.1 Building Responsible Relationships

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19.1 Building Responsible Relationships Review

• Why are teen relationships important?
• Teens are forming their own identity
• Developing relationships with others of the same
  age is part of forming your own identity.

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What are the positive characteristics to look for
in a dating partner?

• Is unselfish
• Treats others well
• Is tolerant respectful
• Has similar morals values
• Is fun to be with
• Respects himself or herself

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What Is Appropriate Dating Behavior?

• Do
• Find out some things that he/she likes to do
  even if they are not your favorite activities
• Focus on getting to know your date
• Be respectful of your dates wishes
  independence
• Observe parents rules for dating.

• Dont
• Always insist on being the one to decide what to
  do
• Focus only on having a good-looking or popular
  date
• Be manipulative or arrogant
• Cause difficulty by going against parents wishes

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How Can You Maintain A Healthy Relationship?

• Treat the other person the way you want to be
  treated
• Be prompt Being late makes you seem unreliable
  or uninterested in the date
• Be courteous polite
• Think of activities you will both like to do
• Dont break a date because something better comes
  along
• Say Thanks You dont owe anything else

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Key Terms - Vocabulary

• What is any activity that includes intentional
  sexual contact for the purpose of sexual arousal?
• Sexual Activity

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19.2 - Benefits of Abstinence - Review
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What Are The Health Benefits Of Teen Sexual
Abstinence?

• Dont have to worry about becoming pregnant
• Dont have to worry about STDs STIs.
• Dont have to worry about the consequences of
  STDs - STIs social stigma, incurable, cancer,
  restricted or inability to have children, death
• The younger you are when you become sexually
  active, the more sexual partners you are likely
  to have, increasing risks of pregnancy /or STDs
  STIs.

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What Are The Consequences Of Being An Adolescent
Parent?

• Being sexually active distracts from other
  important things, such as friends, school good
  jobs.
• Adolescent mothers have difficulty finishing
  school often dont.
• Adolescent fathers legally must
  support their child financially
  may have to work.

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• What is Abstinence?
• The conscious decision to not participate in
  sexual activity.
• What is a Responsible Relationship?
• One that has physical emotional intimacy, i.e.,
  trust, mutual respect, love
• What is a Sexually Transmitted Infection/Disease?
• An infectious disease spread by sexual contact.

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• What is Sexual Intimacy?
• Sharing sexual feelings sexual contact
• What is Emotional Intimacy?
• Sharing thoughts feelings, caring for each
  other, learning to trust each other

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19.3 Coping With Pressures - Review
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19.3 Coping With Pressures Review

• What is Internal Pressure?
• Pressure from within yourself
• What is External Pressure?
• Pressure from another person or group
• What is a Protective Factor?
• Anything that keeps a person from engaging in
  harmful behavior

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What Are The Two Types Of Pressures To Be
Sexually Active?

• Internal Pressures
• Your bodys desire for sexual intimacy
• Your minds desire for emotional intimacy

• External pressures
• Boyfriend/Girlfriend
• The Media
• Peers

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How Can You Nonverbally Refuse Sexual Advances?

• Stand straight up look the person in the eyes
  while talking
• Dont send mixed messages
• Body language should match what your saying
• Avoid nervous behaviors
• Laughter
• Fidgeting

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What Are Verbal Ways To Refuse Sexual Advances?

• Clearly identify the problem in your mind.
• Your partner is trying to convince you to have
  sex.
• State your thoughts feelings.
• Ive decided not to have sex until marriage.
• State what you would like to do instead.
• Lets go to a movie or do something else.
• State what will happen.
• I really like you, but if you dont stop
  pressuring me, Im leaving.

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What Are The Top 5 Protective Factors?

• A close relationship w/ parents or guardians
• Being involved in school activities
• Good performance in school
• Practicing religious beliefs
• Being committed to being sexually abstinent

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What Are Four Risk Factors That Cause Teens To
Become Sexually Active?

1. Alcohol Drugs - Reduces your inhibitions
   make you more likely to engage in sexual activity
2. Dating Older People - Resisting sexual pressure
   is harder when it comes from an older person.
   Most states have laws stopping adults older
   teens from having sex w/younger teens
3. Having Sexually Active Friends - Can influence
   you into becoming sexually active. Hang around
   people who share your same values
4. Being Previously Sexually Active - Increases the
   chance of becoming sexually active again.

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What Are Four Nonsexual Ways To Show Someone You
Care?

• Make or buy inexpensive gifts
• Spend time talking w/each other
• Spend time together
• Be there for them in good times bad