Persuasive Essay On Abstinence-Centered Education

He sees her across the room. The most beautiful girl in the world, Mary Lynn is her name and she is all his. They both sit in Health class going through another abstinence lesson. Miss. Chauffeur calls out “remember students don't have sex till marriage it's a magical thing.” But Erik isn't paying attention he’s got his mind in the gutter. “He thinks tonight is the night, me and Mary Lynn go all the way.” Flash forward nine months later Mary Lynn is pregnant and could “POP!” at any moment the main reason this happened is because Erik and Sally were never taught the correct way to use protection and practice safe sex. Instead were always about abstinence, told to wait and not act on their own impulse’s wired into them from nature itself to breed and keep their species alive. 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outrageous the fact that school boards keep a system in place that doesn't teach how to stop unplanned pregnancies is outdated and frankly doesn't work because it only provides half of the knowledge.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 …show more content…
So society can make a change to help themselves or their children. Go to the school board and superintendents call and talk to local congressmen and do everything in your power to make this as serious an issue as anything else. Show everyone that Comprehensive sexual education must be in every school to have a deep impact on teen pregnancies and teens developing STD’s and