Sex Education in Public Schools: Why Comprehensive is the Best Option Throughout the years of education for school-aged children, sex education is a necessary but controversial topic, and one opinion looms over educators’ heads: should comprehensive sex education be taught over abstinence-only education? A little insight of what each of those means should be given before anyone can form a logical opinion. Since the beginning of education, sexual health in particular, abstinence-only methods of learning have been worn out majorly. This type of knowledge consists of only certain and tergiversating ideologies that may give off a tactic to scare teens into not engaging in sexual activity, or withhold important facts about safely engaging in sexual
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Easily accessible contraception may be discussed, such as condoms, but in a truly negative fashion, which may degrade teens that have already began to engage in sexual activity. Abstinence-only may also teach that sexual expression outside of marriage can cause psychological, physical, and other scary ways that may entirely be false. On the other hand, comprehensive education deals with age appropriate discussions of every aspect in sexual activity: physical, mental, and social. Comprehensive focuses on the overall maintain of sexual health of teens, with the idea that some of the teens may already be sexually active. This teaches students to learn appropriate ways to express sexuality through knowledge and skill. The less-used method uses branches such as health related information, anatomy, personal safety, STDs, healthy relationships, pregnancy, pregnancy options, contraception, and sexual expression. All in all, sexual education should be taught through the comprehensive program because not only does it give a great deal of information, but it also protects the safety of the students’ lives, both …show more content…
"Public opinion on sex education in US schools." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 160.11 (2006): 1151-1156.
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Easily accessible contraception may be discussed, such as condoms, but in a truly negative fashion, which may degrade teens that have already began to engage in sexual activity. Abstinence-only may also teach that sexual expression outside of marriage can cause psychological, physical, and other scary ways that may entirely be false. On the other hand, comprehensive education deals with age appropriate discussions of every aspect in sexual activity: physical, mental, and social. Comprehensive focuses on the overall maintain of sexual health of teens, with the idea that some of the teens may already be sexually active. This teaches students to learn appropriate ways to express sexuality through knowledge and skill. The less-used method uses branches such as health related information, anatomy, personal safety, STDs, healthy relationships, pregnancy, pregnancy options, contraception, and sexual expression. All in all, sexual education should be taught through the comprehensive program because not only does it give a great deal of information, but it also protects the safety of the students’ lives, both …show more content…
"Public opinion on sex education in US schools." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 160.11 (2006): 1151-1156.
Campa, Mary I., et al. "Reaching High-Need Youth Populations with Evidence-Based Sexual Health Education in California." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 108, 2018 Supplement1, p. S32. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304127.
Dahlke, Amber. "Sex Education in Schools." Bedford/ST. Martin’s (2008): 65.
Foster, Lyndsay R., et al. "Middle School Students' Perceptions of the Quality of the Sexual Health Education Received from Their Parents." Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, vol. 20, no. 3, Oct. 2011, p. 55. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=77242813&site=ehost-live.
Garcia, Chloe Krystyna. "Sexual Health Education in Quebec Schools: A Critique and Call for Change." Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, vol. 24, no. 3, Dec. 2015, p. 197. EBSCOhost, doi:10.3138/cjhs.243-C01.
Kirby, Douglas, and Peter Scales. "An analysis of state guidelines for sex education instruction in public schools." Family relations (1981): 229-237.
Kirby, Douglas. "The impact of schools and school programs upon adolescent sexual behavior." Journal of sex research39.1 (2002):