Abstinence-Only Sex Education
Everyone remembers that one-day in middle school when you had to sit through the embarrassing abstinence education talk. The dreaded abstinence only education programs are all about doing whatever possible to abstain from sex. They don’t have to teach about STD’s or the possible outcomes if you do choose to have sex. A larger majority of states in the US don’t require the information be medically accurate when given to students. The truth is teens will do what they want when they want so it is important to teach all aspects of something. Abstinence only education programs are implemented all over the country, these programs are one sided as they often don’t teach the repercussions of sex because they are being …show more content…
So you can imagine how many kids jump to have sex after listening to an abstinence only education lecture. You can’t stop teens from being teens but you can change the information that sets them in the mood. By expanding the information they will know everything they need to about their act of rebellion, making a more informed decision. “[A]s far as 16 year olds, 50% are sexually active,” Dr. Wibbelsman, pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.(NPR) Most 16 year olds are sophomores in high school meaning they are picking from the same group over and over again. One in every four girls between the aged of 14 and 19 has or has had some type of STD. Those are the ages of high scholars’ and STD cases would be significantly less if students were taught the correct information from the start. The public school sex education programs are government funded and operated. All that needs to be done is to add more information to the existing information assuming it is already medically factual and implemented in teaching. “The federal government spends over 170 million annually to subsidize states and community organizations that provide abstinence-only sex education,” Columbia Journal of gender and law. If the government changed the information to better the lives of other teens then they would subsequently be reducing the rate of teen pregnancies and
Everyone remembers that one-day in middle school when you had to sit through the embarrassing abstinence education talk. The dreaded abstinence only education programs are all about doing whatever possible to abstain from sex. They don’t have to teach about STD’s or the possible outcomes if you do choose to have sex. A larger majority of states in the US don’t require the information be medically accurate when given to students. The truth is teens will do what they want when they want so it is important to teach all aspects of something. Abstinence only education programs are implemented all over the country, these programs are one sided as they often don’t teach the repercussions of sex because they are being …show more content…
So you can imagine how many kids jump to have sex after listening to an abstinence only education lecture. You can’t stop teens from being teens but you can change the information that sets them in the mood. By expanding the information they will know everything they need to about their act of rebellion, making a more informed decision. “[A]s far as 16 year olds, 50% are sexually active,” Dr. Wibbelsman, pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco.(NPR) Most 16 year olds are sophomores in high school meaning they are picking from the same group over and over again. One in every four girls between the aged of 14 and 19 has or has had some type of STD. Those are the ages of high scholars’ and STD cases would be significantly less if students were taught the correct information from the start. The public school sex education programs are government funded and operated. All that needs to be done is to add more information to the existing information assuming it is already medically factual and implemented in teaching. “The federal government spends over 170 million annually to subsidize states and community organizations that provide abstinence-only sex education,” Columbia Journal of gender and law. If the government changed the information to better the lives of other teens then they would subsequently be reducing the rate of teen pregnancies and