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Protecting Your Future

Protecting Your Future. 8 th Grade. Bellringer. List your lifetime goals, including five things you want to accomplish in the next 10 years. Protecting Your Future. 8 th Grade. Preventing Pregnancy.

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Protecting Your Future

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  1. Protecting Your Future 8th Grade Bellringer • List your lifetime goals, including five things you want to accomplish in the next 10 years.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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?

  7. 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?

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