In the United States, sex education is a topic to which most tread carefully to avoid. This goes on to practically ensure that the majority of adolescents are unprepared when they decide to become sexually active. The United States has a total of over $150 million in federal funding to go towards sex education, of that, $50 million goes to abstinence-only programs and even with the remaining funds the majority of public schools still fail to provide a comprehensive form of sex education. The United States has comparatively some of the worst statistics in comparison to other civilized countries. I firmly believe that sex education should be a mandatory course to be taught in public schools. A comprehensive sex education would help lower teen…
Many teenagers in high school are uneducated in sex and its harsh consequences. As a former high school student, I have witnessed many of my classmates contract sexually transmitted diseases and take on the role of motherhood much too early. I oppose the fact that many high school students will be faced with a dire situation because they are uneducated, they are underestimated, and they are unprepared. Therefore, sex education classes should become part of the mandatory curricula at all public…
agree that there should be more sex education around the world. There are way too many children that go malnourished and die because no one can provide for them. If there’s a way to prevent couples or even people, for that matter, from having unwanted children, they should be aware of contraceptives. There are so many people in Africa, Mexico, and Thailand that weren’t aware of contraceptives and they have unwanted children that they end up not being able to take care of. Or they end up starving…
Sex education, arguably one of the most controversial topics to surface in American politics over the past half century, poses a complicated problem to citizens and lawmakers alike. Following the AIDS epidemic and severe spike in teen pregnancy in the 1980s, lawmakers and educators began drafting and implementing more sex education classes and courses in public schools in an attempt to remedy the ever-growing issue. While the desired results of sex ed are largely agreed on, the subject matter of…
Stanger-Hall, K. F., & Hall, D. W. (2011). Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S. PLoS ONE, 6(10). Principle Findings In this journal article, the author’s main goal is to analyze the effectiveness of abstinence-only education versus comprehensive sex education. The US ranks number one among developed nations in teen pregnancy and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases despite the US having similar cultural and socioeconomic…
Providing Sex Education in public schools will help reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. In todays over sex society, where sex is used to sell products to teenagers from magazines to TV dramas on the CW. Teens not only see sex used to sell products they also talk about sex with their friends and fellow class mates on a daily basis. So then why are teenagers getting a limited education on sex? Teens are going to talk about sex, they are children growing up.…
what sex education is due to the varying degrees of how it is taught, comprehensive sex education is defined by the Advocates of Youth Organization as a course that “teaches about abstinence as the best method for avoiding STDs and unintended pregnancy, but also teaches about condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and of infection with STDs, including HIV, [and]…also teaches interpersonal and communication skills and helps young people explore their own values,…
dangers of unprotected sex. Instead, they are told that abstinence is the only option for teens. This method of sexual education leads to more teen pregnancy over comprehensive sexual education. When comparing the abstinence only versus comprehensive sex education, comprehensive sex education was associated with a 50% lower teen pregnancy risk (“National”). In Illinois alone, 22,660 teenage women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen were pregnant in the year 2011. In that same year, there…
Sex might be considered funny, or not appropriate by many but it is a very real subject that need to conversed openly and truthfully. Abstinence programs consist of just the idea that sex is a bad and that you should wait to do it till you are married. Comprehensive programs teach the consequences of sexual interactions, how your sexual organs work, and how to prevent STIs and pregnancies. The rates of STD’s and teenage pregnancies in the U.S. have been rising dramatically in certain areas, and…
Thousands of people protested all throughout the country; the civil society was enraged at the prospect of the approval of law 61, which intended to make a sexual education curriculum compulsory to all Panamanian students. What is the reason behind this law? Basically, to decrease the rate of teenage pregnancies, STDs, and defend a somewhat progressive look on polemic matters as gender identity and gender roles. This was the spark that ignited and kept these protests on for a long time. In…