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v. Right to information and education
vi. Right to freedom of thought
vii. Right to health care and protection
viii. Right to choose whether or not to marry and plan the family
ix. Right to decide when to have children
x. Right to freedom of assembly and political parties

xi. Right to the benefits of scientific progress
xii. Right to be free from torture and ill treatment
Summary

1. Adolescence is the period ranging from (10–19) years. It is regarded as a transition
period from childhood to adulthood.
2. A span of years in which both boys and girls move from childhood to adulthood
physically, mentally, emotionally and socially is called adolescence.
3. Those characteristics which are developed with the development of reproductive
system, its organs and their functions are called secondary sexual characteristics.
4. Mental tension is the feeling of burden that brings anxiety or stress in mind.
5. Nocturnal emission means night fall or wet dream. It is the ejaculation during sleep.
6. Masturbation is a way of erecting reproductive organs by using hand for sexual
pleasure.
7. Sex education is an educational process that provides knowledge, skills and attitudes
about the reproductive system, its organs and their structure, sexual matters and
helps to bring change in the attitudes and behaviours towards the healthy sexual
activities.
8. Reproductive health can be defined as, “A state of complete physical, mental and
social well beings and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity in all matters
relating to the reproductive system and its functions and processes.
9. Safe motherhood is the condition in which a mother can deliver a healthy baby
without any complication.
10. The inability to bear children is called infertility. Both male and female may be
infertile.
11. The network of all organs, their structures and functions which are related to the
reproduction process in males is called male reproductive system.
12. Scrotum is an external organ of male reproductive system which lies in front of
thighs and behind the penis.
13. The network of all organs, their structure and functions which are related to the
reproduction process in females is called female reproductive system.
14. The organ which supports in urination and delivery of baby is called vagina.

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