The Importance Of Sex Education

Register to read the introduction… Ever since that act was passed it has constantly been debated if sex education should teach abstinence or safe sex. In the early ninety’s almost $500 million went into teaching abstinence only. Despite what the government wanted teachers and other involved felt differently about what should be taught, they didn’t find it right to just teach abstinence. When a survey was conducted it was shown that most teachers taught abstinence as the primary choice but didn’t leave out the important basics of safe sex. What was taught was based on where in the country the program was, in the south abstinence was taught primarily as the only …show more content…
Also with laws being passed for sex education and abstinence being pushed parental opinions of course come into play. A lot of parents want abstinence to be taught as the primary method of birth control but safe sex is defiantly something they want taught to their children. So even now it is a debate over what should be taught in schools abstinence or safe sex, and who is it really up to, the parents, the teachers, or the ones who make the …show more content…
There are a lot of people who choose to ignore statistics which state that they themselves and their children are at risk of getting a disease which would change their lives forever, or ignore the idea that their child could be having sex, and young teens who don’t believe they can get pregnant the first time having sex. Sex education informs and is an important part of a curriculum, just as much as Math and English, because an education is harder to get if you have a baby or if you spend a lot of time in the doctor’s office. Life is by no means over if a disease is contracted or if a baby is born, but it is defiantly life altering and it is by