It’s every parents fear for their child to become pregnant as a teenager. To have your child go through something that is as hard as having a child. Then having them have to go through all the criticism that comes with it. With all of these challenges you would think that all parents would support sexual education, but no some still live in a world where abstaining is the only way to prevent pregnancy. What is hard to understand is why the parents think that if you teach them that how to use birth control, it encourages teens to have sex. That is completely wrong to educate is not to encourage. Sure, abstaining is one way to prevent having a child, but there are so many other ways to prevent it. There are so many different types of birth control
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A truth is that now a day’s most teens are no longer virgins. (Why)Though abstinence is the surest way to prevent teenage pregnancy the idea that all teenagers will abstain is unrealistic. There is no sure way to make sure that teen abstain, so we must inform them of all of the possible way to prevent both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. That is why the best way to insure that the prevent pregnancy is to teach them everything about all matters of birth control, for both males and females. They should understand what/where to get all the different types of birth control. They should also understand how to use all of them in a safe manner. Teens should as understand all of the consequences of having unsafe sex. They should not just know the obvious ones such as pregnancy and disease. They should also know what can happen as a result of these. They can end up in an unwanted marriage or a “shot-gun wedding”. Which is not unlikely especially with conservative and religious groups. And sadly these marriages typically do not work out and end in divorce with can put even more strain on the parents and the child. Thought the percentage of births to single teen moms has risen to seventy-nine percent in the year 2000, which is considerable higher compared to the thirteen percent in 1950. Another possibility is a lower education then normal or possible. Almost less than two percent of teen moms earn a collage degree by …show more content…
Almost all teens state they or their partner got pregnant because they did not know what to do. (Promise) This is also a reason that sexual diseases are spread. A lack of sexual education can also create problems for teens in their later life. Neglecting to instruct teens about practicing safe sex can result in many different things such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. To help prevent this public schools should teach everything that they can about sex to help educate these teens. Hopefully in time the teenage pregnancy rate will go down. In fact the gap in teen pregnancy between the United States and other developed countries is quite drastic, because of this the United States as has a goal to hit 4.3 percent of teens to have a child between the ages of thirteen to nineteen. (Teen)Though right now this does not seem possible, but with the correct sexual education it is
A truth is that now a day’s most teens are no longer virgins. (Why)Though abstinence is the surest way to prevent teenage pregnancy the idea that all teenagers will abstain is unrealistic. There is no sure way to make sure that teen abstain, so we must inform them of all of the possible way to prevent both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. That is why the best way to insure that the prevent pregnancy is to teach them everything about all matters of birth control, for both males and females. They should understand what/where to get all the different types of birth control. They should also understand how to use all of them in a safe manner. Teens should as understand all of the consequences of having unsafe sex. They should not just know the obvious ones such as pregnancy and disease. They should also know what can happen as a result of these. They can end up in an unwanted marriage or a “shot-gun wedding”. Which is not unlikely especially with conservative and religious groups. And sadly these marriages typically do not work out and end in divorce with can put even more strain on the parents and the child. Thought the percentage of births to single teen moms has risen to seventy-nine percent in the year 2000, which is considerable higher compared to the thirteen percent in 1950. Another possibility is a lower education then normal or possible. Almost less than two percent of teen moms earn a collage degree by …show more content…
Almost all teens state they or their partner got pregnant because they did not know what to do. (Promise) This is also a reason that sexual diseases are spread. A lack of sexual education can also create problems for teens in their later life. Neglecting to instruct teens about practicing safe sex can result in many different things such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. To help prevent this public schools should teach everything that they can about sex to help educate these teens. Hopefully in time the teenage pregnancy rate will go down. In fact the gap in teen pregnancy between the United States and other developed countries is quite drastic, because of this the United States as has a goal to hit 4.3 percent of teens to have a child between the ages of thirteen to nineteen. (Teen)Though right now this does not seem possible, but with the correct sexual education it is