Abstinence-only sex education

Sex Education is crucial information that children all over deserve in a safe and healthy experience. As mentioned by the article Global Perspective on Peer Sex Education for College Students “Sexually transmitted diseases and infections continue to be a public health problem across the globe (World Health Organization, 2006)” (Story et al. 81). All around the world, Sex Education is portrayed in different manners, despite being known globally there are still shocking numbers in regards to…

Sex education is instruction on issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, age of consent, reproductive health, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control and sexual abstinence. Sex education that covers all of these aspects is known as comprehensive sex education. Common avenues for sex education are parents or caregivers, formal school programs, and public health campaigns. This is the…

lengthy and ongoing debates throughout the years, as the apparent issue of teaching sexual education in schools has been a topic of incredible interest over the past few decades. There have been numerous attempts and strategies put in to place to make every parent feel “safe” and “in charge” of their children’s knowledge of reproductive health, including abstinence-only education, monogamy-only education, and getting parent permission to teach the kids. However, there are still many parents…

Despite the lack of funding for comprehensive sex education in the United States, there has been much support for it because it would provide exclusivity within health courses in middle and high schools. Comprehensive education would be efficient because it teaches all aspects of contraception, medication, treatments, abstinence and addresses the diversity of the student body by including students who have different gender and sexual identities. By addressing the universality of students and…

Sex Education is a Contraceptive “According to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an average of 40,000 to 80,000 new cases of HIV are reported each year in the U.S. It is estimated that half of all new infections are among people younger than 25” (quoted in Statistics). There have been many debates over this topic. When is the right time to talk about sex and would it make them more curious? Children are already curious about their bodies; the goal is to make sure they…

Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Schools The sexual health education offered in schools across the globe ranges from complete avoidance of the topic to AO (abstinence only) education to CSE (comprehensive sexual education) and the relative merits of different programs are hotly debated. The central focus of AO programs is the message that sexual activity should be avoided until marriage, while CSE programs typically include factual information about how to prevent pregnancy and STIs…

Amongst us teenagers, how do we react when we hear the word “sex”? We speak with confidence towards sex but the false statements and myths come with it as well. High school students in most states are required to pass a sexual heath class, and parents are more opened to the idea of this knowledge. The eagerness to learn more about sexual diseases is answered through comprehensive sexual education. With this course teenagers are more informed about small details that play a big part of their…

Opponents of limiting sex education argue that teaching abstinence-only methods of sexual behavior will encourage teens to make the “right” choice and higher their chances to stay safe. However, the manner of sexual education taught simply does not expose the population to enough factual information to educate them on the topic, and as Aldous Huxley predicted in Brave New World, these outdated ways simply do not fit in the modern traditions of the growing population. Teen pregnancy rates are…

Sex education should be mandatory in schools, it's actually a subject that should never be looked over and should be taught before a child goes to high school. Boy and Girls need to know more about their bodies, methods to prevent pregnancy Also it’s a great way to explain to the female child about girls menstrual cycle without teaching sex education in school most kids would be clueless about how their body works.sex education should be mandatory in school due to the facts that some parents…

(What can actually work?) Elizabeth would like for us to go away from the abstinence-only concept, educate 4. A. Although the book primarily discusses HIV/AIDS in Asia,…