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 Competency Goals:: 3: The learner will interpret health risks for self and others and corresponding protection measures.
Objectives:
3.01: Extinguish fires correctly. 3.02: Understand that a mutually faithful monogamous heterosexual relationship in the context of marriage is the best lifelong means of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases. 3.03: Explain the effectiveness and failure rates (some studies indicate failure rates range from 2% to 30%) of condoms as a means of preventing sexually transmitted diseases. 3.04: Recognize abstinence from sexual intercourse until marriage as the only certain means of avoiding out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually-transmitted diseases, and any other health and emotional problems associated with sexual intercourse. 3.05: Describe the benefits of abstinence from sexual intercourse until marriage. 3.06: Explain the risks of premarital sexual intercourse. 3.07: Demonstrate techniques and strategies for becoming or remaining abstinent by dealing with peer pressure. 3.08: Define and provide examples of health and medical quackery. 3.09: Analyze messages in the media targeting teens.