A Lesson Plan from Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program (Chapter Two)

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Leader's Resource for the lesson, Values Voting

1. Someone can earn enough money to live on without finishing high school.
2. It’s right to expect different behavior from males and females just based on their gender.
3. Carrying a weapon is smart if you live or work in a dangerous place.
4. Having a baby as a teen is a good way to get proper respect in the family and community.
5. Raising a child by yourself makes more sense than marrying someone you don’t love.
6. It’s okay for a guy to cry.
7. You should only have sex with someone you love.
8. Having a job you enjoy is more important than making a lot of money.
9. Waiting to have sexual intercourse until you are an adult is a good idea.
10. Someone who is infected with HIV should not have sex without telling the partner that he/she has the virus.
11. Selling drugs to children is a very bad thing to do.
12. It should be okay for teens to use any drugs they want.
13. When a man and woman have sex, contraception is the woman’s responsibility.
14. In the family, financial support is the responsibility of all the adults.
15. A young woman who keeps condoms in her purse is easy (not virtuous).
16. A gay or lesbian teen should be able to show affection (like holding hands or kissing) for a same-sex partner.
17. A man is a man when he’s fathered a child.
18. Dating someone of a different race or culture is wrong.
19. A country has the right to protect itself by attacking other countries.
    

Life Planning Education, Advocates for Youth, Updated 2009