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What should public schools teach our children about sex? It can be a complex question, especially when dealing with morals, social norms, pop culture, hormones and health. When students sit down for their sex education, should teachers embrace an abstinence-only policy?
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Abstinence-Only Programs Don’t Work
Dealing with Reality Not Intentions
Certainly, any teen may take a pledge to purity, with great intentions. But in reality, 88% of them end up breaking their pledge. So we MUST have a back-up plan, and this is why abstienence-only programs just don't work. Although abstinence is the ideal, we must educate teens about birth control, STDS, and the psycological effects of engaging in sexual intercourse. In the here and now, abstience oaths sounds like the straight and narrow, but when caught in the heat of the moment, teens are highly likely to fall off the path.
- trotterk88
January 25, 2009 6:54PM
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