The Benefits Of Abstinence Of Sex Education

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Many believe parents do not sufficiently educate their children about the topics of parenting and sex education and feel that schools need to provide teens with training for adulthood and having it mandatory to complete parenting classes. Having such classes and also being required to take a sex education class would help students realize the importance of sex education and being properly trained for parenthood. Parents often believe sexuality, family planning and parenting needs to be taught at home, however, having a sex education class and a parent training class as a required credit in high school would help prevent future child abuse and neglect, gain crucial parenting skills, understanding of child development and help prevent teen pregnancy and STDs, also sex education is beneficial because it educates kids before they get too eager want to “experiment” things on their own. When children are maltreated it is the most extreme outcome of poor parenting. Maltreatment in children seriously impairs mental health and disrupts development of a child. Having a parent training class in school would be extremely valuable to anyone who plans to become a parent. Not only would this class be useful for high schoolers but Barth and Haskins write in their article, “If U.S. parents had access to services that improve parenting, the nation would witness not only a decline in abuse and neglect – as welcome as that would be – but also a boost in child development for a broad range of children as manifested in higher school achievement, less delinquency, fewer teen pregnancies, reduced child mental illness, and a host of other positive outcomes.” There are three programs that have been tested and founded to improve parenting and child results says Barth and Haskins. The first, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). PCIT provides specific coaching to parents often by having observers communicate over a headset with parents about how to use different parenting skills. Another related program is Parenting Management Training (PMT). Parenting Management Training is scientifically based approach to successful parenting to young children. The third and most expansive is the Positive Parenting Program or the Triple-P. The Positive Parenting Program is community oriented and has professional help vocabulary, treatment approach, and helps gain a common understand between the parent and child. In today’s world there is a lack of skill in the parents. Having a child is one of the most important jobs in the world. It has to happen to continue the world and today there is a lack of knowledge when it comes to being a parent. Because of this there is a crucial need for a free, required course in order for people to become a parent. With a course like this parents would know how to childproof their home, how to administer CPR, how to better …show more content…
Yes, abstinence would be the safest, but through the years this method of teaching has been proven false. For decades, the government has been spending taxpayers money for “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” programs. “Congress funneled a total of over one-and-a-half billion taxpayer dollars into abstinence- only-until-marriage programs and the funding continues today” (A History of Federal…). They continue to do this even though there is overwhelming evidence that it is highly ineffective, in many cases doing more harm than good. In 2007 there was a federally funded study of abstinence only education programs and the results “...showed that youth enrolled in the programs were no more likely than those not in the programs to delay sexual initiation, to have fewer sexual partners, or to abstain entirely from sex” (The Truth about...). Many other studies have had similar results. In a random survey ten candidates were asked “Do you think it needs to be mandatory to take a sex education class to graduate high school?” Seven out of the ten people who were asked this question believe that students need this class in order to graduate. They were also asked if teaching abstinence only until marriage would be more effective than a sex education class. Out of the ten who were asked this, seven of them responded that a sex education class would be more effective than an abstinence only class. This evidence shows that people in general, would much rather have sex education classes for high

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