W6 265

Read the scenarios and answer the questions that follow.

• Tina and Dan are considering various birth control methods. They are a newly married couple who practiced abstinence before marriage and plan on starting their family within a year.
  • Choose possible methods of contraception for the couple and discuss the advantages and disadvantages they would need to consider at this point in their lives.
• Linda is a young single woman with an active dating life. She chooses to be intimate only with long-term committed partners. She is wary of the risks associated with sexually transmitted infections and has decided that she does not want to be a single parent.
  • Choose possible methods of contraception for Linda and discuss the advantages and disadvantages she should consider at this point in her life.

Describe the male partner’s role in choosing birth control in both of these scenarios.