Comprehensive Sex Education In Schools Essay

Believe it or not, in 1940, the U.S. Public Health Service strongly advocated sexuality education in the schools, labeling it an "urgent need” (Pardini). Now, if one looks at a high school’s curriculum chances are he or she will find no evidence of a comprehensive sex education class. Unfortunately, sex education classes are not strongly advocated like they used to be. The controversy with comprehensive sex education classes in schools lies with parents who believe that they should be the ones to talk to their children about sex, contraceptives, and sexually transmitted diseases, but not all teenagers are receiving this information from their parents. If these teenagers are not hearing vital information about sex, contraceptives, and sexually transmitted diseases, STDs, from their parents, who is to say they are even getting the information at all. Comprehensive sex education classes are not designed to stop teenagers from having sex, but to educate them on the risks that come along with it. Comprehensive sex education classes are …show more content…
A survey should read that one hundred percent of teenagers have received a sex talk from their parents. The truth of the matter is that a survey conducted by Planned Parenthood on teenagers who have not received a formal comprehensive sex education class shows that only forty-two percent of parents have talked to their teenagers about sex. Only forty-two percent, leaving fifty-eight percent of teenagers in the dark and uninformed, leaving them more susceptible to unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. As one can see, there is a need for comprehensive sex education classes in all high schools, because teenagers do not need to be deprived of the essential information provided in the