Gautam Ghosh

Addressing the sex related problems among Adolescent in India

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Produktbeschreibung

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: none, , course: Ph.D (sociology) - Social Science, language: English, abstract: Adolescent all over the world experience sex-related problems. India India too, they are remarkable in their similarity. The cause could vary from country to country. For example, while in the USA there is a teenage out-of-wedlock pregnancy every three seconds and a sexually transmitted disease every 13 seconds, in India most of the pregnancies occur within marriage and no statistics on sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents are available. It is considered to be high and perhaps equal to the USA figures.The process of adolescence is a period of preparation for adulthood during which time several key developmental experiences occur. Besides physical and sexual maturation, these experiences include movement toward social and economic independence, and development of identity, the acquisition of skills needed to carry outadult relationships and roles, and the capacity for abstract reasoning.Almost any of the physical changes occurring during adolescent can cause concern to the boy or the girl. The onset of puberty gives the physical excitement never experienced before. The adolescent reacting to these experiences is excited, often without realizing what is happening to him. Some react with pleasure or excitement and some others experience shame, disgust, confusions, anxiety and guilt. They may lead to sexual maladjustment.In India, this age group forms 21.4 percent of the total population . Characterized by distinct physical and social changes, the separate health, education, economic and employment needs of adolescents cannot be ignored. In India there is a resistance to the concept of 'adolescence'.Aside from these objections to the relevance of the concept of adolescence to the Indian scenario, it is also arguable whether the term itself is valid. Adolescents are generally perceived as a homogenous group, yet they can be stratified on the basis of gender, caste, class, geographical location (urban/rural) and religion. Adolescents also include a whole gamut of categories: school and non-school going, drop-outs, sexually exploited children, working adolescents - both paid and unpaid, unmarried adolescents as also married males and females with experience of motherhood and fatherhood . This paper attempts to understand the sex related problems facing the Adolescent in India and the urgent need for educating adolescents' on their reproductive health issues.

Produktdetails

• Akademische Schriftenreihe V210499
• Verlag: GRIN Verlag
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 16
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 40g
• ISBN-13: 9783656390336
• ISBN-10: 3656390339
• Artikelnr.: 37534346

Autorenporträt

Education: University of Calcutta : Pre-University 1971 University of Calcutta : Bachelor of Arts 1981 University of Calcutta : Post-Graduate Diploma in Social Work (Labour Welfare) 1996 Vinayak Mission University: Master of Arts in Sociology 2011 Monad University : Doctor of Philosophy in sociology 2013 Indian Institute of Public Health, Delhi Post Graduate Diploma in Management of Reproductive & Child Health 2016 Professional training: a) Multipurpose Rehabiliation Training Course from the National Institute for Orthopaedically Handicapped , Government of India in 1981 b) Orientation Training on Rehabilitation of Spinal Injured from the Spinal Injuries Association, United Kingdom in association with Stoke Mandeville, UK in May- July 1991 c) Commonwealth Diploma in Youth Work from the Commonwealth Youth Programme, Asia Centre through the Department of Youth Affairs, Government of India; April 1993-March 1994 d) National Course on Locomotor Handicapped under the Rehabilitation Council of India for being accredited as Registered Rehabilitation Professional in 2001. e) Youth Leadership Training in Alexandria, Egypt under Cambridge College, USA in September 2002 f) Course on International Perspective of Participatory Research under the University of Auckland, DCS, Canada through PRIA Education, New Delhi during April-June 2008. g) The five-day Training of the Trainers under the NACO for master trainers on IDU interventions in India (revised strategies) conducted by the UNODC-ROSA in New Delhi on 14-18 November 2011 & under NACO-DAC, Govt. of India in Pune 20-22 March 2017