What should public schools teach our children about sex? It can be a complex question, especially when dealing with morals, social norms, pop culture, hormones and health. When students sit down for their sex education, should teachers embrace an abstinence-only policy?
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Should 'Abstinence-Only' Sex-Ed be Taught in Public Schools?
Abstinence-only sex ed fails our kids.
While abstinence pledges and abstinence-only sex education may decrease rates of teens having sex while in high school, those same teens are four times more likely to have anal sex and six times as likely to have oral sex, both of which carry considerably more risk for contracting an STD. The problem with these religious groups is that they don't actually care whether actual progress is made, only that the material is in line with THEIR BELIEFS (not anyone else's beliefs, because anyone who doesn't think like they do is immoral and therefore inferior). Although all 50 states experienced a slowdown in their teen pregnancy rates in the late 1990s and early 00s, the states that had the least amount of progress were states with well-established abstinence-only programs at a vast number of their public high-schools (Arkansas, Texas). A number of AO curricula also plainly state a number of things that are simply not true, lying about the failure rate of condoms and their ability to stop HIV.
- DelBeano
August 1, 2008 10:15PM
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