The comprehensive program is the best method in teaching teen’s sexual education. Comprehensive programs teach safe sex and promote abstinence while abstinence-only programs just teach to abstain from sex until marriage. Like stated earlier abstinence is affective but teens most likely will act against it. The best option would be to promote abstinence and teach the safe ways to engage in sex if it comes down to that point. By letting teens try and figure out sex on their own only increases the risk of STDs and pregnancy.
The Importance of Comprehensive Sex-Education in Schools Sex is huge, sex is important; everyone cares and has something to say about sex. Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and no kid can avoid it. Are teens getting enough knowledge on sex and how to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,(STD’s)? Comprehensive sex-education promotes abstinence but it also includes information about contraceptives and STD’s, while promoting safe sex if a student chooses to engage in sexual activity before marriage. Me, personally, my parents did not give me the birds and the bees talk, but I was afforded the opportunity to take sex-education in high school.
When schools pass items such as condoms around, kids can easily get the impression that it’s okay to use them. In this sentence he is trying to reach out and appeal to the parents, and older adults who have the same feeling as he does. Limbaugh believes that the distribution of condoms is not only promoting kids to have sex, but is also giving them the idea that condoms prevent all the consequences of sex. In the second paragraph Limbaugh states that, “Kids will have sex anyway, and that this logic leads to schools providing drugs, and bullet proof vests.” Although providing drugs may seem a little extreme, and maybe a little crazy, I would have to agree with Limbaugh. If schools are handing out condoms to students, what would the difference be if they are handing out drugs?
Should sex education be taught in schools? There have been many debates over this. Studies show parents say that sex education only destroys the morality of people because they think that sex education teaches students about how sexual intercourse is done. Although sex education lowers the morality of people by teaching students how to use condoms and contraceptives, it should be taught in primary school and secondary school because its a prevents sexual diseases and teenage pregnancy, it is indeed a need in case of parents’ absence, and it gives children the idea of what is right and what is wrong. Research shows that teens are more sexually active now than before.
If these statistics are ignored or downplayed, the probability of a full blown epidemic could become a reality. Safe sex practices should be cultivated early on in the life of a young adult to where those healthy practices are carried on throughout the individual’s life span. Engagement in risk behaviors peaks during adolescence. Adolescents are over-represented in nearly every category of risk behavior, such as drug use, alcohol consumption, smoking, skipping school, and unsafe sexual activities (Baumgartner, Valkenburg, & Peter, 2010). There are numerous advantages to practicing safe sex, the most important is that individual can expect a life free of sexually transmitted diseases that can cause various cancer like cervical cancer for women in the case of HPV, outbreak of herpes spores which can affect an individual for life, Hepatitis B and C, which can damage the liver and cause death and HIV which can lead to AIDS and eventually death.
The matter in question here is, whether distributing condoms in public high schools actually influences teenagers to participate in sexual activity. Rush Limbaugh’s opinion in his article “Condoms, the New Diploma” is that giving condoms to teenagers will encourage them to have sexual relations, and what should really be done is stimulate them to practice abstinence. Limbaugh also discusses that the motivation behind the mass distribution of condoms is ridiculous and misguided (515). His proposal is to focus on supporting abstinence but to supply protection for those that choose to repudiate. Limbaugh expresses his concern about how AIDS are a problem that came as a consequence of the sixties and seventies- the age of “free love and rampant one-night stands” (516), and about the welfare modifications, like the use of condoms.
They often time just make decisions that will benefit them for the moment. The decision to have sex at a young age could have more devastating consequences than becoming pregnant such as contracting a disease that could be life threatening. It is becoming the norm in our society for teens to engage in sexual relations which is an unfortunate problem in my
Practicing abstinence may be the most utterly method for minimizing this rate, but it’s an irrational method. It would not educate them on the life changing risks correlated with sexual intercourse. Providing a clear and precise curriculum in sex education focussed on career goals, sexually transmitted diseases, healthy relationships, the results of being a young parent, and facts on contraceptives would be most beneficial. Educating minors on how sexual activity at a young age can drastically change their lives would greatly impact the reduction of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy proceeds as a major issue with more than half of all teenagers in the United States stating that they had participated in sexual intercourse at least one point before high school ended.
Teen-Parent Communication About Sex When young people feel unconnected at home, family, and school, they may become involved in activities that put their health at risk. However, when parents affirm the values of their children, young people often develop positive, healthy attitudes about themselves, therefore delaying in sexual activity. The writer’s purpose(s) for writing these articles is because risky teen behavior is on the rise, and what are parents and families doing/not doing to promote safe behavior? I chose these articles because I am a teen parent, and I feel that if I had been able to have “the talk” sooner, more in depth, and more often, that it may have prevented my pregnancy. Teen Sexuality’s research showed a few things: Adolescents who stated that they were connected with their parents were more likely than other teens to delay sexual intercourse.
The amount of sexual content on television is huge. During the 2001-2002 season 64% of television programs had some form of sexual content, 61% of television talked about sex, and 14% displayed an act of sexual intercourse (Collins 3). Only 15% of shows during the 2001-2002 seasons displayed a depiction of safe sex (Collins 3). During high school 46% of students have sexual relationships that contribute to the high rate of teen