Comprehensive Sex-Ed in Schools
“Mom, what’s sex?” “Don’t worry about it, you’re still too young.” A typical parent and teen conversation. When it comes to the talk about the birds and the bees, parents turn the conversation around and don’t want to talk about it. Just to keep them from asking questions about the topic they will respond with a “Don’t have sex till marriage and you’ll be fine.” This is not the adequate amount of information for confused adolescents. During their teen years, their body changes just as much as their emotions. They need to understand what is going on with their body, they deserve to know what is sex and the outcomes of unsafe sex: STD’s and teen pregnancy. Schools should be required to teach Comprehensive sex-education …show more content…
For example in the article it states that in California in 1991 “the national average was 6.18 births for every 100 teens”(Peak, “The Common Sense Move That Reduced California's Teen Pregnancy Rate by 60 Percent”). This reveals that pregnancy rates were high and that California needed to do something to lower them. In the same article California accomplished to lower the rates 38% in 2011. Since there was an increase in having comprehensive sex education in some schools it made students more aware of the consequences of unprotected sex. Making them less likely to get pregnant at a young age and lowering the rates in California. In the first article I read it states that “Those who received sex education were significantly less likely to report a teen pregnancy compared to those who received no sex education at all” (Kohler Etal, “Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex”). This exposes that comprehensive sex-ed is actually effective because there’s a difference amongst those educated on sexual health and those who are not. Due to the effectiveness of receiving education on sexual health is the main reason of why comprehensive sex-ed should be taught at
“Mom, what’s sex?” “Don’t worry about it, you’re still too young.” A typical parent and teen conversation. When it comes to the talk about the birds and the bees, parents turn the conversation around and don’t want to talk about it. Just to keep them from asking questions about the topic they will respond with a “Don’t have sex till marriage and you’ll be fine.” This is not the adequate amount of information for confused adolescents. During their teen years, their body changes just as much as their emotions. They need to understand what is going on with their body, they deserve to know what is sex and the outcomes of unsafe sex: STD’s and teen pregnancy. Schools should be required to teach Comprehensive sex-education …show more content…
For example in the article it states that in California in 1991 “the national average was 6.18 births for every 100 teens”(Peak, “The Common Sense Move That Reduced California's Teen Pregnancy Rate by 60 Percent”). This reveals that pregnancy rates were high and that California needed to do something to lower them. In the same article California accomplished to lower the rates 38% in 2011. Since there was an increase in having comprehensive sex education in some schools it made students more aware of the consequences of unprotected sex. Making them less likely to get pregnant at a young age and lowering the rates in California. In the first article I read it states that “Those who received sex education were significantly less likely to report a teen pregnancy compared to those who received no sex education at all” (Kohler Etal, “Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex”). This exposes that comprehensive sex-ed is actually effective because there’s a difference amongst those educated on sexual health and those who are not. Due to the effectiveness of receiving education on sexual health is the main reason of why comprehensive sex-ed should be taught at