Parents Want a Strong Abstinence Message
The vast majority of parents believe that teenagers should be given a strong message from society to abstain from sex until at least after high school. A Zogby International poll of U.S. parents also found that abstinence education is the preferred approach for the sex education of youth in America. Key findings include:
- 9 out of 10 parents agree that being sexually abstinent is best for their child’s health and future, with 8 in 10 strongly agreeing;
- 78% of parents think sex education classes in public schools should place more emphasis on promoting abstinence than on condom and other contraceptive use;
- 59% of parents said more funding should go to abstinence education
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Parents want their children to practice abstinence, so therefore they want the schools to teach abstinence only. However the teachers can teach abstinence, but that does not mean the teens will listen. The parents that think the teens will listen to the abstinence only and not have sex until they are married are being naive. The world seems to be a different place than it was years ago and teens are even having sex earlier than before. Although this is not a good thing, abstinence only programs are not going to change it.
In the article, "Parents want a Strong Abstinence Message" the Christian organization of Lifeway show statistics that 90% of parents want an abstinence education because it is the best for the well-being of their child's health.
This strong percentage of parents are the body that help fund the educational system through their taxes. Since the tax money is coming from their pockets, they should be paying for the education that they want their child to recieve. It is very important to keep the wants of the parent satisfied because if they are not satisfied, they will complain and cause problems for the school and state.
As parents, they will always have a mind set to be protective over their little baby no matter how old they are. Parents do not want school systems advocating that sex is allowed if it is protected because that puts their child in danger. Many parents raise their children with values, and do not want schools to tarnish the values that parent s have spent years on teaching their child. Sexual activity is risky and unsafe, and that will cause a parent to worry about their children's well being and health.
I have to say that if I was a parent I would want a strong abstinence from sex message sent to my kids too. Parents want their kids to refrain from sex until they are married because they know that is the best way to keep away from STDs. The problem with abstinence only sex-ed programs is they don't teach kids how to prevent pregnancies or the spread of STDs. School need to use a sex-ed program that will benifit the student body as a whole, and abstinent only sex-ed programs are not the way to do that.
If a parent wants their child to have a strong abstinence base then they should be the ones installing that in their child. The children that have had that moral put in their life at a young age are probably more likely to obey it then somebody that learns about it at school. The kids that want to do it are going to find a way to do it.
I see kids everyday who have no clue what's coming when they decide to "get down." There is definitely no stopping teens now. We need to know how to protect ourselves, not just hear teachers preach to us about everything we do wrong. Plus, if parents want their teens to change so bad, they should talk to them themselves, not leave it to some teacher, who's just interested in these kids from 8 to 3.