Unfortunately most of the media doesn’t provide the information of safely protecting oneself from diseases or pregnancy. In the majority of movies and television shows they don’t show the guy slipping on a condom before he performs sexual intercourse; or the girl taking birth control weeks in advance. The after effects are failed to be presented in muc

The abstinence only programs teach that what they expect are for teenagers to engage only in faithful monogamous relationships in the context of marriage (“Abstinence”). They not only teach children that the effects of sexual activity are physically harmful but also psychologically enduring. Many of the programs ignore the benefits of different contraceptives. Instead they choose to emphasize the failure rates and side-effects of many contraceptives(“Abstinence”). To one this may appear to be a deceitful approach in which they are only showing one side of the truth. According to the Centers for Disease Control surveys less than half of US schools provide students with the information about what condoms are and how to use them (Lite). According to Tamara Kreinin, president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. “Manipulating facts abut condoms is using a scare tactic to try and get kids not to be sexually active” (Morse). Another consequence of withholding the full information from youth is promoting their ignorance of their own safety. If they don’t get the proper education of protecting themselves from their schools, where else are they going to get it?

h of today’s media. Very few of the sexual acts being performed are by couples that are married. This is in return sending kids a mixed message. Television, and movies are showing them it’s okay to be sexually active with out marriage, but their schools are telling them just wait until marriage because it’s better that way. Who’s sending the mixed message now? Educating the youth efficiently about all aspects of sex in public schools starting in middle school until high school should be a number one priority in every school in America: Teaching kids abstinence only is unhealthy and unrealistic in today’s society; by teaching youth safe-sex methods a reduction in the number of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease (STD’s) will occur; it is also a child’s right to be entitled to the full amount of information about safe-sex.

Educating the youth of the world has shown to be an effective approach in lowering the number of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Take for instance the sex education program in Maine, twenty years ago Maine held the highest number of teenage pregnancies in the nation; now in Maine the number of teenage pregnancies has fallen to thirty births per 1,000 teenagers (Curran). Such programs are encouraging kids to ask for help and make the right decision with all the information; like the campaign Figh

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