Abstinence-Only Sexual Education Curriculum

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Parents of teens often are faced with challenges during the developmental years of adolescences. One of the biggest challenges parents face during this time is sexual education. It is no surprise that the controversy surrounding sexual education still exists in today’s society. Some argue that children should acquire some form of sexual education in schools just as they do with other subjects. Recently President Barrack Obama cut all funding for abstinence-only sexual education curriculum due to studies finding them to be ineffective (Trehold et. al. 6). However, there are a large number of schools who are cutting out sexual education from their curriculum or do not offer it at all. As of January 1st, 2015, 22 states and the District of Columbia

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