Many believe parents do not sufficiently educate their children about the topics of parenting and sex education and feel that schools need to provide teens with training for adulthood and having it mandatory to complete parenting classes. Having such classes and also being required to take a sex education class would help students realize the importance of sex education and being properly trained for parenthood. Parents often believe sexuality, family planning and parenting needs to be taught at home, however, having a sex education class and a parent training class as a required credit in high school would help prevent future child abuse and neglect, gain crucial parenting skills, understanding of child development and help prevent teen pregnancy
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Yes, abstinence would be the safest, but through the years this method of teaching has been proven false. For decades, the government has been spending taxpayers money for “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” programs. “Congress funneled a total of over one-and-a-half billion taxpayer dollars into abstinence- only-until-marriage programs and the funding continues today” (A History of Federal…). They continue to do this even though there is overwhelming evidence that it is highly ineffective, in many cases doing more harm than good. In 2007 there was a federally funded study of abstinence only education programs and the results “...showed that youth enrolled in the programs were no more likely than those not in the programs to delay sexual initiation, to have fewer sexual partners, or to abstain entirely from sex” (The Truth about...). Many other studies have had similar results. In a random survey ten candidates were asked “Do you think it needs to be mandatory to take a sex education class to graduate high school?” Seven out of the ten people who were asked this question believe that students need this class in order to graduate. They were also asked if teaching abstinence only until marriage would be more effective than a sex education class. Out of the ten who were asked this, seven of them responded that a sex education class would be more effective than an abstinence only class. This evidence shows that people in general, would much rather have sex education classes for high
Yes, abstinence would be the safest, but through the years this method of teaching has been proven false. For decades, the government has been spending taxpayers money for “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” programs. “Congress funneled a total of over one-and-a-half billion taxpayer dollars into abstinence- only-until-marriage programs and the funding continues today” (A History of Federal…). They continue to do this even though there is overwhelming evidence that it is highly ineffective, in many cases doing more harm than good. In 2007 there was a federally funded study of abstinence only education programs and the results “...showed that youth enrolled in the programs were no more likely than those not in the programs to delay sexual initiation, to have fewer sexual partners, or to abstain entirely from sex” (The Truth about...). Many other studies have had similar results. In a random survey ten candidates were asked “Do you think it needs to be mandatory to take a sex education class to graduate high school?” Seven out of the ten people who were asked this question believe that students need this class in order to graduate. They were also asked if teaching abstinence only until marriage would be more effective than a sex education class. Out of the ten who were asked this, seven of them responded that a sex education class would be more effective than an abstinence only class. This evidence shows that people in general, would much rather have sex education classes for high