95 percent of these pregnancies are unintended. This has caused the United States to have the highest rate of teen pregnancy of all developed countries. Less than one-third of teen mothers finishes high school (Pregnancy major ). If a mother's education is cut short, She will probably lack job skills and could possibly live in proverty.
Not only teaching contraception will reduce pregnancy, but it will also reduce the spread of sexual transmitted diseases. Every year about 3 million teens acquire a STD. With just a single act of unprotected sex with an infected partner, a person has a 1 percent risk of acquiring HIV, a 30 percent risk of contracting genital herpes, and a 50 percent chance of getting gonorrhea. 10-29 percent of sexually active teenagers tested for STDs has been found to have chlamydia. If these teenagers would have a complete understanding of properly using contraception, the number of sexually transmitted disease cases would drop.
I believe that teachers should provide condoms to students that might need them. Some who oppose sex outside of marriage believe that distribution of condoms encourages adolescent sexual activity (Religion ). Unless teachers are giving them to every student and stating that they must use them, then it is not a problem. I think that if a student asks for it then it should be given to him or her. Some teenagers are going to have sex anyway out of curiosity. It would be .
best if they were provided with the proper contraception. Distributing condoms will only ensure that more teenagers will be having safer sex. Religion plays a large part on the debate of sex education in school. I think that choice of waiting until marriage to have sex is the decision of the student only. If the student were true to his or her beliefs, it would not matter if sex were discussed in class. .
President Bush asked Congress for a 33 percent increase in funding for abstinence-only programs.