Safe Sex In Schools Research Paper

“What is sex?” an innocent child would ask their parents. Most American parents would not like to discuss that topic with their children and rather let the schools or program teach it to them. According to Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, Wilson and Koo had reported “In the United States, nearly half of all high school students are sexually active, and adolescents experience high rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases”. Meanwhile in Europe, parents discuss the importance of having safe sex. Therefore, Americans should follow the European value on teaching sex to their children like knowing who it’s impacting and, the negative and positive outcomes in order to have a strong bond. Inserting sex and teenagers in the same sentence can make a parent feel squeamish, but it is an important topic for a child to have an open mind set for it. They don’t realize, “teenage sex is a source of conflict in many American families.” (Schalet, Amy). The conflict in American families is the unstable bond and trust issue. This means that the teenager does not have the desire to tell their parents about their sex lives or their partner because they are afraid of their reactions or the outcome. Meanwhile, the parents will never know their teenagers are with someone who can be a potential threat or be part of the family. This can cause them not knowing if their child needs help on relationship problems, preventing any STDs or becoming a parent. Once the parents discover their secret, they would get upset at them for not trusting them and would build up an argument. While American parents are lecturing their teenagers about ethical principles, in Europe, they are educating their children about human sexuality. One woman in the UK had taught their child just like how her parents taught her. She stated, “it’s just information, and it’s there to be asked, and [my attitude is] I’ll tell you, to …show more content…
When there is no parent teaching about sex, it can lead to negative impact on to the children. For example in Adolescent expectancies, parent-adolescent communication and intentions to have sexual intercourse among inner-city, middle school youth, Guilamo-Ramos had explain, “peer norms were more strongly associated with sexual behavior for adolescents who had not discussed sex or condoms with a parent”. This shows that teenagers’ knowledge about sex will come from friends’ experience, movies, or televisions because the parents are not telling them anything. Friends would be the one “educating” them about their experience such as their sex lives. If a best friend advises you something like, “you can’t get pregnant the first time you have sex”. This statement is false, and anyone who believe this “fact” then they might get STI or get pregnant. The positive insight of teaching children about sex can maintain STDs free and create a strong bond on parent-children relationship. When a child who had parental guidance, discuss with them about, “sex, birth control, and the dangers of STDs were two times more likely to use condoms [unlike the] teens who did not talk to their parents as often." (Whittaker, Alicia). This shows that with the parent’s advice, they can have safer sex and cannot transfer any sexual infections to anyone. Furthermore, they can