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Sex Education Are Essential For Teens

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Sex Education is a controversial but extremely important topic. Yet, we are doing very little to address it. Teaching sex education in schools are essential for teens to help build a strong foundation of sexual health. Although sex education must begin at home, some parents feel uncomfortable talking about the topic with their children and they believe teaching their children about sex can end up encouraging them to engage in sexual intercourse. Due to that, parents and schools try to emphasize the importance of abstinence. Parents and schools try to teach children to never have sex until they are married. However, this program is flawed because it promotes a bias perspective. The goal of the program should be to inform and educate …show more content…

Some parents argue that avoiding consequences like STDs is why school should teach abstinence instead of safe sex. Teenagers now are becoming more sexually active than ever before. If everyone keeps teaching teenagers about abstinence, they will become more curious about sex and will decide to try it themselves without any protection. American youth from the age of 15 and 24 are more likely to catch STDs than older adults (Phipps). In 2016, a study done by centers for disease control and prevention, an estimated 5,259 young people ages 13 through 24 in the 33 states reporting to CDC was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, representing about 14% of the people diagnosed that year (CITE). Some people will argue that condoms do not prevent sexually transmitted diseases, but that is a false claim because condoms are very effective to fight against STDs. A study was done in Europe with 124 couples, where one of them was HIV infected and the other one was not. In the experiment the couples that used condoms during sexual intercourse showed up with no sign of HIV transmitted to the uninfected partner. However, among the couple that were inconsistent users of condoms, 12 percent of the uninfected partners later became infected with HIV (Newmeyer). This study shows how much protection a condom provides. Just because parents are teaching their children that sex before marriage is sinful does not mean that the children will always obey. Teenagers will do it anyways without their parents

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