Is Abstinence education the best education?

After reading the article for class even though the education that teaches abstinence is proven to have the lowest sexual intercourse rates, I still believe teaching kids' safe sex is needed. I know when my mom was going to give me the whole talk, it was pretty straight forward. Which I think helped me out in many ways. I knew I could go talk to her about anything that I had thoughts about and in school I didn't feel I could ask questions. I think sex education in high school is needed for kids whose parents didn't take the time to tell them about the birds and the bees. I do have to admit when I went through sex education in high school I thought it was funny but I did learn from it. I think if you talk to your kids at an early age that's good. It just seems that parents now a day's rarely have time to do much with their kids because they have to work so much to live a comfortable lifestyle. If it were me I would try to find a way to incorporate abstinence, safe sex, consequences of sex, and why you should wait for marriage, and how to go about peer pressure if you choose abstinence. I think getting information from your parents is different than getting information from school, that is why I believe both are essential to learning.