Comprehensive sex education in schools is necessary to address issues like teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. While some argue that sex education should be handled at home, studies show that comprehensive sex education programs delay sexual activity by providing factual information about safety and decision-making. These programs instruct students that abstinence prevents pregnancy and disease, while also giving realistic information about other options. Mandating sex education in all schools could help reduce teenage pregnancy and disease rates by ensuring young people have the knowledge and skills to make informed choices about their health.
Comprehensive sex education in schools is necessary to address issues like teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. While some argue that sex education should be handled at home, studies show that comprehensive sex education programs delay sexual activity by providing factual information about safety and decision-making. These programs instruct students that abstinence prevents pregnancy and disease, while also giving realistic information about other options. Mandating sex education in all schools could help reduce teenage pregnancy and disease rates by ensuring young people have the knowledge and skills to make informed choices about their health.
Comprehensive sex education in schools is necessary to address issues like teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. While some argue that sex education should be handled at home, studies show that comprehensive sex education programs delay sexual activity by providing factual information about safety and decision-making. These programs instruct students that abstinence prevents pregnancy and disease, while also giving realistic information about other options. Mandating sex education in all schools could help reduce teenage pregnancy and disease rates by ensuring young people have the knowledge and skills to make informed choices about their health.
Pre-marital sex, which leads to teenage pregnancy, is one of today's most common problems. One factor that contributes to this type of problem in our society is a lack of specific sex knowledge. If this issue is not addressed, it will only increase our country's poverty rate because some of our country's teenage parents lack the ability to raise a child while working. As a result, sex education in our schools is necessary to open our minds to the possibility of preventing teenage pregnancy. Many others disagree, arguing that sex education is a personal matter that parents should discuss with their children and thus does not belong in an academic setting. While both of these points of view have limitations, it is critical that sex education continue to be taught in schools. Students will be properly educated not only on how to prevent negative outcomes such as Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancies, but also on a wide range of sexual health topics such as communication, relationships, and decision-making. There is also a widespread misconception that providing comprehensive sexual education in schools encourages sexual activity and leads to an increase in the number of teenagers having sex. Goldman (2011) argued that, the knowledge of sexuality leads to informed decision-making, delayed sexual intercourse, responsible interpersonal behavior, and self- protection strategies. Furthermore, a study of sex education in California public schools discovered that "curriculum-based comprehensive sexuality education, which includes instruction that includes a focus on abstinence, as well as comprehensive information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases,shown to delay rather than quicken the onset of sexual activity" (Combelick and Brindis). Comprehensive sex education discourages youth from engaging in sex. Good comprehensive programs instruct students that abstinence is the only surefire way to prevent pregnancy and STIs, just like abstinence-only programs.The distinction is that these programs also provide students with factual and realistic information about the safety of various sexual practices as well as strategies for increasing the chances. Sex Education provides young people with the knowledge and skills and that they need to live a healthy sexual life for the rest of their lives. They learn how to have healthy relationships, make informed sexual decisions, think critically about the world, be a good ally to those who are marginalized, and accept themselves as they are. Thus, Sex Education must be mandatory in every schools to help reduce teenage pregnancy rates and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. REFERENCES Juiette D.G. Goldman, (2011),“An exploration in health Education Pedagogies For young People”,Oxford Academic, Retrieved from:https://academic.oup.com/her/article/26/3/526/739587 , December 3,2022 Combelick Sarah & Claire Brindis, “Uneven Progress:Sex Education in California Public Schools”, Bixby Center for global Reproductive Health, Retrieved from: https://docplayer.net/12108226-Uneven-progress-sex- education-in-california-public-schools-sarah-combellick-mph- claire-brindis-drph.html