Abstinence Education for the Adolescent Teen
Like many other teens, Susan always thought about having sex because most of her friends stated that they had already done it. At the age of 16 years old, Susan was an honor roll student, was never dishonest, nor disobedient, and had a lot going for herself. She was a junior in high school when she met her boyfriend Jim. The couple were inseparable. Susan and Jim after a double date outing with some friends, made the choice to engage in a sexual activity of romance.
It was everything her friends said it would have been. After coming home from school, Susan noticed that she had missed a menstrual cycle and thought it might have been from the stress of hoping she got accepted into the college she had been really hoping for. After becoming ill she realized she had become pregnant. Something that was definitely unplanned, she went to her …show more content…
The helpfulness of sex education is to influence teens to wait until they are ready to have intercourse. Researchers believe that parents may not be the best source in conversation about abstinence because, every parent does not want their child experiencing such actions until they are married.
It is stated that when a parent tells their teen to not become sexually active, more than likely they will be. This is where the educators come into play. 90% of middle as well as high school parents, feel that having the school educators teach and provide their teens about sex education would be beneficial and important, 7% would rather them not tell their child about all that is involved into sex but, would rather explain the importance in the privacy of their own home, and 15% described only wanting abstinence-only education to be
Like many other teens, Susan always thought about having sex because most of her friends stated that they had already done it. At the age of 16 years old, Susan was an honor roll student, was never dishonest, nor disobedient, and had a lot going for herself. She was a junior in high school when she met her boyfriend Jim. The couple were inseparable. Susan and Jim after a double date outing with some friends, made the choice to engage in a sexual activity of romance.
It was everything her friends said it would have been. After coming home from school, Susan noticed that she had missed a menstrual cycle and thought it might have been from the stress of hoping she got accepted into the college she had been really hoping for. After becoming ill she realized she had become pregnant. Something that was definitely unplanned, she went to her …show more content…
The helpfulness of sex education is to influence teens to wait until they are ready to have intercourse. Researchers believe that parents may not be the best source in conversation about abstinence because, every parent does not want their child experiencing such actions until they are married.
It is stated that when a parent tells their teen to not become sexually active, more than likely they will be. This is where the educators come into play. 90% of middle as well as high school parents, feel that having the school educators teach and provide their teens about sex education would be beneficial and important, 7% would rather them not tell their child about all that is involved into sex but, would rather explain the importance in the privacy of their own home, and 15% described only wanting abstinence-only education to be