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This comprehensive resource is designed for 8th-grade students to understand family planning and pregnancy prevention. It covers lifetime goal setting, the importance of risk elimination through abstinence, and risk reduction methods such as contraceptives. Students will learn about effective communication in relationships, decision-making processes around parenting, and the responsibilities involved in raising a child. Additionally, it addresses factors like education, career, finances, and the impact of a child on personal freedom. Equip yourself with knowledge for a secure future.
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Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Bellringer • List your lifetime goals, including five things you want to accomplish in the next 10 years.
Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Preventing Pregnancy • Risk elimination is a strategy that completely prevents the chance of an unwanted result. For example, abstinence completely prevents the chance of an unwanted pregnancy. • Risk reduction is a strategy that reduces the chance of an unwanted result. For example, contraceptives reduce the chance of an unwanted pregnancy.
Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Preventing Pregnancy • Contraceptive methods are devices or techniques used to reduce the likelihood of pregnancy. No contraceptive is 100% effective.
Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Planning a Family • Family planning is the process of making decisions about the timing and spacing of having children. • A few of the many factors to consider before becoming a parent are: • Finishing your education • Establishing a career • Time and energy • Finances
Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Talking About Family Planning • Communication Barriers To overcome barriers to communication, couples can practice communicating about less serious topics first. • Communicating Effectively Good communication is assertive and direct.
Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Deciding to Become a Parent • Before deciding to have children, each spouse should answer the following: • Are you ready to fully and actively commit the next 18 years to your child or children? • Are you willing to take responsibility for a child’s health and safety? • Who will watch your child when you are unable to be there? • Are you willing to give up the freedom to do what you want when you want?
Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Deciding to Become A Parent • Before deciding to have children, each spouse should answer the following: • How will a child affect your current or future educational goals? • How will a child affect your job or career? • How will you pay for having a baby and raising a child? • Are you confident that your relationship is strong enough to handle the stress of having a child?