Examines a broad range of perceived or actual legal rights and freedoms that impact the lives of young American teens. This volume focuses on teenage sexuality.
Examines a broad range of perceived or actual legal rights and freedoms that impact the lives of young American teens. This volume focuses on teenage sexuality.
General Note
Electronic reproduction.
Content Note
1. A state cannot require parental consent for a minor's abortion : the US Supreme Court's decision / Harry Blackmun -- 2. States should have the right to require parental consent before a minor's abortion : concurring and dissenting opinion / John Paul Stevens -- 3. Parental consent can be required before a minor's abortion can be performed : the US Supreme Court's decision / Lewis F. Powell -- 4. No choice for teens / Amy Bach -- 5. Parental consent laws protect the health of minors / Teresa S. Collett -- 6. Parents fault parental consent laws for their daughter's death after an unsafe abortion : personal narrative / Bill and Karen Bell -- 7. Minors have the right to access contraceptives : the US Supreme Court's decision / William J. Brennan -- 8. Limiting teens' access to contraception unless they obtain parental consent puts them at risk / American Civil Liberties Union -- 9. A teen decides to seek contraception without talking to her parents : personal narrative / Anonymous -- 10. Laws targeting men as the perpetrators of statutory rape are just : the US Supreme Court's decision / William Rehnquist -- 11. Laws targeting men as the perpetrators of statutory rape are unconstitutional : dissenting opinion / William J. Brennan -- 12. A child 13 or younger cannot be charged with statutory rape for sex with peers in most cases : the Ohio Supreme court's decision / Judith Ann Lanzinger -- 13. Age of consent laws are inconsistent and rely on outdated stereotypes of masculinity and femininity / Martha Kempner -- 14. Sexting is immoral and criminal / John L. Terry -- 15. What's the matter with teen sexting / Judith Levine.