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Why can’t we realize that sex education is not good; it really promotes sex as a good social thing (no religou
s affiliation with answers. I’m looking at this as a social science. If you teach students about Abstinence aren’t they more likely to not have sex as compared to teaching them about protection? This question has no connection to the no sex before marriage and any Christian thought, this just has to do with the logic of teaching sex education. If you teach people about protection they will use it and they still can contract diseases and what are you really promoting that its ok to have sex? (why promote that, how does that help us?)
If abstinence really was taught we would have less teen pregnancies and if you don’t believe me take this hard core fact, pre-marital sex has drastically increased since the 1960s.
Scientists even see premarital sex as an increase in destruction of nuclear families. Is that what we want? I really want to hear peoples reasoning on this subject matter
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about 1 year ago
teens will still have sex, no matter what. it’s better to teach them on how they can protect themselves.
p.s. i read the article. don’t agree with it at all.
about 1 year ago
no… teaching abstinence only is dumb. it keeps teens in the dark, and teens will be more likely to contract stds and get pregnant. and more pre-marital sex does not = more teen pregnancies. teens can have sex without getting pregnant IF EDUCATION IS PROVIDED.
about 1 year ago
It upsets me too, but it’s the natural order of things.
Teens brains are not as developed as adults yet so they think these kinds of things are ok.
So, if they teach teens to protect themselves, less teens will become pregnant.
It’s horrible really what the world has come too.
I’m a teen and I’m gonna wait.
I’m not THAT stupid.
about 1 year ago
I don’t think there is a right way or a wrong way to “teach” children about sex….when we let it up to the parents it didn’t work (kids went out and did it)…so then they left it up to their peers (and the kids got wrong info)…so then they taught health in the schools (health is health). We have tried religious instruction (our monsignor told us we were allowed to jump out of a moving car if were abducted even if we killed ourselves just to get away from a rapist) but all that did was scare us whateverless. So each option we know of has been tried even the moral laws (ten commandments) of the church, yet people have their own minds and are responsible for themselves. Maybe we should teach the word “responsible” and “think for onesself” in our schools now.
Presently, as I understand it, there are “health” courses in the schools. I don’t know particularly that there are courses called “sex education”. Health is to prevent all kinds of diseases which is very important for the world to survive. When people think of abstinence they think of abstinence from having children, I think, not abstinence from the act of sex. And the act of sex, no matter what way it’s done, a person can pick up disease, so that’s why the “health class”.
In addition, if you’re going to teach abstitenence it should be from the parents and religious point of view and done at home (so therefore it’s up to YOU to teach your children that). The health part is for the country to promote.
How children (or adults) act or react to “any” training is their own choice.
about 1 year ago
I know this may not be a Christian way but the sex education only shows the good parts. If sex education shows pain of diseases, of children to young for sex. The children don’t think it can happen to them, we are immortal I know I’ve been there and done that. When a six year old is shown the joys of sex, as he grows up he will think nothing of have sex. A child is shown pictures of nude people he will check it out with his friends and get hold of something he may not with an older boy or girl.
about 1 year ago
Teens who are only taught abstinence don’t abstain from sex until marriage, they just seem to postpone the age that they have sex. But for the most part most teens even those taught about abstinence are having sex by 17. When they are in a position where they are thinking of having sex ( which most of the time is on date and not something planned) they don’t think about what might happen if they have sex. Even those who take vows of chastity rarely stick to them. So just telling them that they shouldn’t have sex doesn’t work, you have to work at protecting them from the consequence of having sex.
You can’t compare now to the 60′s a lot of things have changed since than and it doesn’t really have any thing to do with teen pregnancy. It has more to do with the changes with in society, The ease of divorce and the need of both parents to work just so that people can have an reasonable chance of a decent life style. You’re blaming one part of society for the supposed break down of society which you can’t do. IF there is a deterioration of our societal mores look at the broader society and not just a narrow sliver of it.
about 1 year ago
I disagree. Sex education is very important. We were taught about sex around the age of 12, the year before going up to secondary school. Teenagers will do whatever they want, no matter how much teaching you give them. Sex is part of growing up, and at 16 you want to be and act grown up, so for some teenagers this means being sexually active. It did for me, Im not proud but this is the truth. I remembered what we had been taught at school and I made damn sure I used protection and got birth control. I have never got pregnant or had an STD, thanks to being well educated. A bigger deterent for me was what my parents would say if I came home at 16 and told them I was pregnant! These days Im not sure it matters anymore. Thats another story!!!!
about 1 year ago
I think clear, honest, unbiased and continuous education about sex is always a good idea, but I think that you will get the same result whether you teach students about abstinence alone or protection alone. Public education is simply inadequate and I think it has little impact. But one must ask the question – what other options are available to students if they are not getting good information and discussion on sex at home?
Misinformation and partial information are both dangerous and there are many students out there that need information on how to protect themselves.
A Christian environment tends to lean toward a too-conservative position and that sex is taboo, while a public school environment may convey a position that is not age appropriate, or too liberal. And neither forum fosters a continuous open dicussion that I believe is critical.
When it comes to talking to teens about sex, you will be most effective if you make a distinction between teaching and preaching. I have a teenage son – I have done my best to keep lines of communication open and honest. He attended sex education in school, we discussed sex education at home. He does come to me with questions. I ask him about his opinions. I respectfully disagree sometimes and tell him why, but I always allow him his opinions. I believe that he will make good, well-thought out decisions because of this.
Would you please provide a link or reference to the scientific study that you cite which shows a correlation between the destruction of nuclear families and premarital sex?
about 1 year ago
I would tend to agree with you, to a point. I do think kids should learn (at an appropriate age) about sex. People reproduce, and they will need to know about it eventually even if they aren’t engaging in sex outside of marriage. One would think basic biology or anatomy would be an appropriate place to introduce the concept.
That said, schools today overemphasize protection on the theory that kids are going to “do it anyway.” Kids need to understand that as young adults, they have duties to society. Getting pregnant and expecting family members or the State to support the child (or pay for an abortion) is antisocial and at odds with good citizenship. So is contracting a sexually transmitted disease when one could easily avoid it by making socially responsible decisions. Civic responsibility is downplayed for fear that some progressive-minded intermeddler is going to denounce teaching morals in the schools.
Handing out pills, condoms, and who knows what else will not eliminate the risk of pregnancy and disease, especially for young people who are sexually active regularly and not just sporadically. Birth control fails. Condoms break.
Not to mention, there are many teens who are responsible. When we treat teenagers like a bunch of chimpanzees and spout the “they’re going to do it anyway” philosophy, we are essentially telling them that we do not trust them to have good judgment. There’s a reason that kids whose parents have high expectations of them generally fare better in life than their peers.
about 1 year ago
I don’t agree with you at all I’m sorry but human psychology is that when you tell someone not to do something they get curious and try it, and then we have bigger problems as then they don’t know how to protect themselves.
Teens see sex everywhere movies, TV, newspaper, magazines basically all media type. Even if they thought abstinence it would raise the statistics of teen pregnancies higher as they wouldn’t know about protection.
Teaching teens about sex has and always will keep the Numbers low in teenage pregnancies.
about 1 year ago
Studies have shown that teaching abstinence only increases the chances that kids will get pregnant unintentionally. Is that what you want?
about 1 year ago
i think it is good to educte childern about sex, but how can you go about with it. first you we have to ask yourself what is Abstinence:Abstinence is not having sex. A person who decides to practice abstinence has decided not to have sex.And secondly.How Does It Work?If two people don’t have sex, then sperm can’t fertilize an egg and there’s no possibility of a pregnancy. Some forms of birth control depend on barriers that prevent the sperm from reaching the egg (such as condoms or diaphragms). Others interfere with the menstrual cycle (as birth control pills do). With abstinence, no barriers or pills are necessary because the person is not having sex. that is all i have to say about this question.