Although it might not be during high school, they need to know the consequences and the safety precautions that go along with having sex, whether it's preventing pregnancy, or it is teaching them how to prevent the spread of disease. If students are not taught this in high school, and their parents aren't willing to discuss this with them, when will they…
As parents, teachers, or role models, it is our duty to educate our youth on the importance to use condoms or take birth control. We can tell teens…
Sex is going to happen among public school students no matter what. According to “Teen Sexuality and Pregnancy,” 62 percent of high school seniors in the United States have had sex. The argument over whether to teach Abstinence-only or Comprehensive Sex education is ongoing and yet unnecessary. There is absolutely no possible way to insure that every single public school student refrains from having sex until marriage.…
adults fail to use contraception. They are filled with “out of the health book” information that doesn 't give a clear perspective of a real life situation. Put it this way, if a young adult male was never introduced to a “safe sex” method then why would he use it? Same goes for a young adult female, why would she tell the young adult male to use protection if she was never taught about it? It 's a simple thing that can solve such a big problem.…
A lot of teen pregnancies are accidental. If the young women knew about the consequences of sex and preventative contraceptives, some teen pregnancies could be prevented. This article is peer reviewed, therefore it is credible. This article has many exact points that help prove the reason for comprehensive sex education. Starkman, N., & Rajani, N. (2002).…
Its outrageous the fact that school boards keep a system in place that doesn't teach how to stop unplanned pregnancies is outdated and frankly doesn't work because it only provides half of the knowledge. A passage taken right out of the NAEA or National Abstinence Education association's website states “Despite what you may read in the newspapers, there is a growing body of research that confirms that abstinence-centered education decreases sexual initiation, increases abstinent behavior among sexually experienced teens, and/or decreases the number of partners…
Teen pregnancies and contraceptive methods has always been a heavily debated topic, especially for sale to youth. Teens often struggle with telling parents about concerns with sex so having an easier approach would be beneficial in many ways. It should be available to teenagers because it is a safe and effective emergency way to decline unintentional teenage pregnancy. Birth control should be readily available to teenagers to provide easy access, lower teen pregnancy rates and set safety precautions.…
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.…
these with their children. The education carries out a very important point in this subject and is that if you do not manage how to control the adolescents' hormones verbally they will do what the hormones say and this is a mistake made by them. Although the adolescents can make their own decisions, the parents could help that they could protect themselves and help themselves. I think that the father also gets a very important role in this because he has the responsibility to talk with his son about protection and how to use the pill and condom.…
Former sex education programs in American led to misinformation about the fundamentals of sex. For example, a sex-education video from the 80s insinuated that a young girl performed better in bowling due to the starting of her menstrual period (Oliver), It is important that the basics of sexual education are accurately and efficiently delivered to the students of America. If a student is provided with a book but is never taught how to read, what use does the book serve? Who will teach the student that it is not okay to throw his or her book at another student, unless the student asks to read the book? This same analogy can be applied to abstinence-only education.…
That it cannot guarantee complete protection, and only encourages sex in young teenagers. This is not the case, as studies have continuously proven that birth control is effective. One such study was done by the Office of Adolescent Health, reporting, “The teen pregnancy rate declined by 51 percent- from 116.9 to 57.4 pregnancies per 1,000 teen girls. ”This steady decline can only be attributed to the most recent and updated forms of birth control that effectively prevent pregnancies and STDs. A compromise proposed by schools and parents is to offer contraceptives and sex ed classes later in high school, but as shown by these statistics, it may be too late by then.…
Should Sex Education be in Schools? A Review of the Literature Statistics show 34.3 percent out of 1000 female adolescents are pregnant, actually the lowest recorded in history (King, 2014).The previous statistics lead to approximately 850,000 adolescent pregnancies alone (McKeon, 2006), the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy recorded in the United States opposed to every other country. McKeon (2006) also states around 9.1 million adolescents have contracted an STI/STD under the age of twenty-five. In the society were young adults are expected to excel managing major degrees or higher in college contraception frowned upon by many.…
To prevent young adolescents from contracting diseases or experiencing teen pregnancy, sex education should be mandated in public schools. When comprehensive sex education is taught throughout the school, teens are more aware of the consequences of sex. The basic science of sex should not only be discussed but also how to protect yourself. More importantly, sex…
Sex education is a huge part of everyone’s life growing up because we all need to understand what it is and what consequences we can get by doing something we are not sure of. But some might take it to a far extent that children do not need to know. Some teachers even start teaching kids too early. Children do not start getting hormones until about twelve and some start learning around nine and that is too early. So many different things can happen when having sex education because they can either be teaching too much or too less.…
Sexual Education has been encouraged to be a part of public school education since the late 1800’s. It is a program that is supposed to help young adolescents understand their body, promote abstinence, types of contraception, the risks of engaging in sexual activities, and how to prevent diseases or pregnancy. However, many parents fight this program because of their beliefs that teens should stay abstinent till marriage, and learning about sex will increase their urge to have sex. Depending on what the state requires to be taught and what a school district wants, a student will either receive one of the two styles of sexual education. The two styles are comprehensive and abstinence only.…