Scope and meaning of sex education for pregnant adolescents: A documentary approach
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https://doi.org/10.46502/issn.2792-3681/2025.8.8Keywords:
sex education, psychology, pregnant adolescents, sexual and reproductive life, documentary approachAbstract
During adolescence, sex education transcends the mere transmission of reproductive information, becoming a teaching-learning process that allows young people to develop analytical, communication and informed decision-making skills about their sexual and reproductive lives. For these reasons, using a documentary methodology, the objective of this research consisted of reflecting, based on concrete empirical evidence, on the scope and meaning of sexual information for pregnant adolescents, analyzing in the process the existing gaps between theoretical knowledge and practical application in real contexts. The results obtained from the critical analysis of the sources allow us to conclude that, definitively, progress towards educational systems that guarantee adolescent sexual and reproductive rights requires a sustained commitment from multiple social actors, investment in evidence-based research and development of regulatory frameworks that effectively support comprehensive sexuality education programs from the perspective of human capabilities for life.
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