Should 'Abstinence-Only' Sex-Ed be Taught in Public Schools?

Should 'Abstinence-Only' Sex-Ed be Taught in Public Schools?

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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What the American Public Wants
  • Kabunky
    Maybe In A Pefect World

    This article caught my attention because of the one quote from "What the American Public Wants" as the author wrote that adults perform sexual activity with agape unconditional love. " ...because sexual activity should be associated with meaning and serious commitment" It would truly be a perfect world if in fact all of the promiscuous lovebirds of the world could show their affection with meaning. Sex today basically comes down to the basis of poor Headenism,or the indulgences of pleasures, especially those of the flesh. Many of you may be appalled right now, grabbing your pitch forks and what not, but to be honest, even some adults do not get love correct.
    Why should I be talking as I am a high schooler and not a parent you say? It is because you very people are my peers and my elders, but I am not in the least impressed. Why should I be? Divorce rates are spiking so high that 50% of first marriages fail, and you all thought you found TRUE love, but you were mistaken. Those couples gave themselves to each other and they fail each other as well. Now those very people "fall in love" and marry, have sex, and have a 67% of their marriage failing. These are all statistics proving that serious committed adults in marriage fail too. Sex is no longer the blood covenant of man because people perform the act and break it. Why is it then that teens are shunned for doing the very same thing? You say it is because of marriage, but the parents do not keep the marriage, so sex becomes a more than one person act whether it is performed by a teen or an adult. In a perfect world sex will only be performed with true meaning and maybe perhaps love. I see it that the act of sex has lost its true meaning because of the parents in our generation choosing to divorce and lead their children to think it is ok to move person to person, and the children are mirroring that same trait, but are catching on faster about how it is acceptable to promiscuously debauch from person to person.
    My link from my statistics http://www.divorcerate.org /

    - KabunkyUS February 25, 2009 3:18PM

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