Sex Education in the Schools

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This paper explains that sex education in the schools has been an area of intense debate, from classrooms to the Supreme Court, in American education for many years. The major area of conflict generally is focused on the abstinence-only education approach, which is heavily supported by federal government funds. The author believes that education on abstinence is the moral solution. Teenagers will make responsible decisions only when they are educated on moral choices and not on the way they choose to prevent pregnancy; there is no safe sex. The paper concludes that, looking at the various statistics on unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among teenagers, it is clear that the requirement for a comprehensive sex education program is to teach postponement of sexual involvement and the way to protect themselves, if they choose to indulge in sex, to give maximum protection from the risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

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"Teenagers require the right information to aid in protecting themselves as these statistics given below show. The teenage pregnancy rate in the US is more than double that of any western industrialized country. The number of teenagers becoming pregnant each year is greater than a million. The rate of sexually transmitted diseases is the highest when compared to any age group. One out of every four youngsters contract some form of sexually transmitted diseases before the age of twenty-one. Sexually transmitted diseases have the potential to damage a teenager's health and the ability to reproduce. AIDS has still no cure."

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