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Sex Ed

The three major reasons why sex education is taught in our schools are: 1) to discourage teens from having sex at younger and younger ages; 2) to stop the spread of AIDS and other STDs; and 3) to prevent teenage pregnancy. .
             Today's sex education programs are abstinence based. "Washington has spent some $31.7 million developing abstinence only curricula" (Shapiro 56). By looking at the problems sex education tries to solve, we can improve the sex education programs by putting the problems in order of importance. This will prove that teens having sex at a younger age is the reason for the failure of sex education in this country. To counteract this problem abstinence should be taught to children under the age of 16. Then when the children reach the age of 16 they need to be taught AIDS and condom education.
             AIDS and other STDs are an important reason we have sex education. AIDS education is supported in all fifty states: "Sex education is only formally required or recommended in 47 states" (Gibbs 61). This shows that AIDS education is considered more important than sex education. Many people are still contracting AIDS through sexual contact even though there has been a nationwide awareness program. It is a fact that "2.5 million teenagers are affected by sexually transmitted diseases each year" ("The Effects" 632). It relies on sex education to stress condom use, but many young teens are forming their patterns of contraceptive use or nonuse before they are educated enough to make the right decision.
             Another major problem sex education tries to solve is teen pregnancy.
             "American teenage females experience about one million unplanned pregnancies each year" ("The Effects" 632). "About thirty-seven percent of teenage pregnancies end in abortion and about fourteen percent in miscarriage" (Whitehead 73). The social consequences of teens having children are great. If a teenage mother does not finish high school or become married there is a seventy-nine percent chance that the mother and the child will be poor (Whitehead 73).


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