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The document discusses the effects of dating at a young age. It notes that while dating can help teach social skills, teenagers are not emotionally mature enough to handle the challenges of dating. Dating at a young age can lead to unwanted pregnancies and STDs as young people may engage in sex before they are ready. It also notes that young people enter dating with unrealistic expectations that relationships will fulfill all their emotional needs. The document concludes that dating at a young age often results in negative consequences like unwanted pregnancies, STDs, depression, and suicide due to young people not having the ability to deal with dating challenges logically.

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Dating at Young Age Essay 2

The document discusses the effects of dating at a young age. It notes that while dating can help teach social skills, teenagers are not emotionally mature enough to handle the challenges of dating. Dating at a young age can lead to unwanted pregnancies and STDs as young people may engage in sex before they are ready. It also notes that young people enter dating with unrealistic expectations that relationships will fulfill all their emotional needs. The document concludes that dating at a young age often results in negative consequences like unwanted pregnancies, STDs, depression, and suicide due to young people not having the ability to deal with dating challenges logically.

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Running head: DATING AT YOUNG AGE 1

What are the Eeffects of Dating at Young Age?


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What are the Eeffects of Dating at Young Age?

Dating presents people with an opportunity to learn constructive social skills

honesty, mutual respect, trust, and compromise. Various factors influence children and

adolescents to start relationships with members of the opposite sex. For example, videos

aired on television and various websites portray dating as "cool " hence convince boys

and girls to begin relationships (Guo et al, 2002). However, when people indulge in

relationships at a young age when their brains are not sufficiently mature to handle the

challenges that underpin dating, trouble is inevitable (Davis & Friel, 2001).

When teenagers date older partners, they get influenced to indulge in sex before

they are physically and emotionally ready. As such, these young people find themselves

getting unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Girls are likelier to date

older partners than boys (Davis & Friel, 2001). Unfortunately, teenagers do not have

adequate knowledge on the risks of underage sexual activity and the methods of playing

safe sex. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 9% of girls

and 5% of boys have their first sex before they get to the age of fifteen years. In these

cases, the opposite sex partner involved is usually more than three years older than the

teenager. In many jurisdictions, the education system emphasizes on abstinence only until

marriage (Guo et al, 2002).

Young people enter the dating scene with unrealistic ideals and expectations. For

instance, many expect relationships to be the panacea to all their emotional needs.

Moreover, they anticipate that their relationships should follow certain predefined paths

including transitions from acquaintances to marriage (Guo et al, 2002). However, such
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paths are not always followed by many relationships and this causes depression and

suicide at times. Many incidences of young partners killing each other have been reported

across the globe. When teenagers encounter various dating challenges, they handle them

emotionally instead of allowing logic and mutual understanding (Davis & Friel, 2001).

The above discussions highlight the challenges associated with dating at young age.

As argued, these relationships result in underage unwanted pregnancies, sexually

transmitted diseases, frustration, depression, and suicide. As highlighted, young people

are not mentally capable of resolving the challenges associated with dating hence the

inevitability of these negative consequences of dating at young age.


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References

Davis, E. C., & Friel, L. V. (2001). Adolescent sexuality: Disentangling the effects of

family structure and family context. Journal of marriage and family, 63(3), 669-

681.

Guo, J., Chung, I. J., Hill, K. G., Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., & Abbott, R. D. (2002).

Developmental relationships between adolescent substance use and risky sexual

behavior in young adulthood. Journal of adolescent health, 31(4), 354-362.

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