Imagine one night, you wake up to a phone call from your sister and she’s crying because she just took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. She was the child who didn’t do any wrong, but she would always sneak out and have sexual relations with people of the opposite sex. As a result of your parents not letting either one of you in a sexual education course, neither one of you know about the alternatives, so your sister feels that she has to keep the baby and her life is changed forever; she becomes a teenage mom. Your sister became the problem of the family. She was stuck in the same town with the same job for the rest of her life all because she didn’t know about sexual education. Sexual education is the teaching of sex, sexual identity, relationships, and intimacy. It is also about helping adolescents develop the skills they need to make good choices, and feel confident that they made the right decision based on sex. Sexual education is a subject that most adults try to avoid and it has always been up for debate among both parents and educators. Sexual education is more than just the physical aspect of sex, it also teaches adolescents about the emotional and psychological impacts on them when they have sex; for this reason, they need to have a sexual education course in school before they can properly practice safe sex. Sexual education is important in schools due to the neglect of parents not teaching their children the proper procedures. Some adolescents don’t have a parental figure to teach them about sexual education. On the same hand, other adolescents have parents who don’t feel comfortable teaching their children about safe sex. Religious parents with strong beliefs and conservative parents get flustered when the topic of sex is brought into the conversation and think that teaching sexual education to their children will open a gateway to having sex. They believe that if they don’t teach their children about sex, then it won’t be a problem. Parents who don’t teach their children about safe sex are more likely to raise children who have a higher chance of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and getting pregnant in their teenage years. Moreover, adolescents need to learn about diseases and viruses and ways to prevent pregnancy. The only way people can contract syphilis, chlamydia, and other diseases is through sexual intercourse. Whether bodily fluid or just contact of the skin, sexually transmitted diseases are transmitted many ways. Sexual education can help teach young adults about safe sex. They can be taught about abstinence, which is the ultimate birth control, or about condoms and other forms of birth control. Although abstinence is the ultimate birth control, it isn’t always effective because sometimes adolescents cannot control their raging hormones. If it is possible that they are going to have sex, they should at least know the ways to stay safe while participating in that act. Birth control can be used for more than just safe sex also. It
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She went through the sexual education course and learned all the proper safety techniques that are required to be safe when having sex. She never snuck around and always let her parents know what she was doing and who she was hanging out with. She dated around in high school, but if she ever had sexual relations with anyone, she was safe. She found her husband in college, and they got married five years ago. She moved off with him and lived her life to her highest potential. She never had any problems with anything all because she was educated about sexual education. Sexual education is extremely important to children and not allowing them the experience of sexual education will make them worse off in the long run. Parents shouldn’t neglect their children by not wanting to teach them about safe sex because this denies them the chance to learn about themselves. Adolescents need to be educated about safe sex in schools because their parents cannot fully teach them all of the aspects of sexual education and what happens after having
She went through the sexual education course and learned all the proper safety techniques that are required to be safe when having sex. She never snuck around and always let her parents know what she was doing and who she was hanging out with. She dated around in high school, but if she ever had sexual relations with anyone, she was safe. She found her husband in college, and they got married five years ago. She moved off with him and lived her life to her highest potential. She never had any problems with anything all because she was educated about sexual education. Sexual education is extremely important to children and not allowing them the experience of sexual education will make them worse off in the long run. Parents shouldn’t neglect their children by not wanting to teach them about safe sex because this denies them the chance to learn about themselves. Adolescents need to be educated about safe sex in schools because their parents cannot fully teach them all of the aspects of sexual education and what happens after having