Sexual education has obviously shifted over past decades; I believe that parents and educators need to be more concerned with the well being of the children than that of their own. It is important for children to understand what is going on with their bodies, the more a child knows and understands the more likely he/she is to control the inclination to engage in sexual activities. In a perfect world abstinence would be the best idea, but we all know this is not a perfect world. I do feel it is important to also teach children about abstinence so they will have adequate information to make a rational decision what the time comes. I do not believe that young people do not think before they act, but there are far too many risk factors in today’s society not to take into account the fact that young teens do act on impulse. There are some overwhelming statistics about young American teens in correlation with sex ed. (http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_sexEd2006.html)
By their eighteenth birthday 60% of girls and 50% of boys have engaged in sexual activity. Despite the decrease, the United States has the highest number of teen pregnancies in the developed world. I find this statistic evidence enough that controversial education is important to differ teens from becoming pregnant, or even contracting an STD.
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I do agree that sex education is important however abstiniecne education is just as important. I believe that abstinience should be taught in conjunction with sex education along with teaching our teens how to deal with public and peer pressures. If the teens are more informed and impowered they may be better equipped when faced with the decision of initiation or continuing to engage in secxual activities.
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