Sex Education in Schools Essay

teens have sex can be due to pressure from their surroundings. In a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 48% of teens ages 12-17 reported they felt “a lot” of pressure to take part in sexual intercourse and/or do sexual acts. This pressure can come from a number of sources, but the biggest perpetrators are their fellow peers and the media. Mostly it is young men who feel a large pressure from their friends to have sex. While 23% of girls said they feel pressure to have sex, one third…

Shelby Whiteaker Professor McCann English 1301 14 October 2014 The Truth In Rush Limbaugh’s essay, “Condoms: The New Diploma”, he talks about the foolishness of the distribution of condoms in high school. He says in his essay that abstinence should be the one and only sex education because condoms don’t actually offer one hundred percent protection against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Limbaugh’s essay would appeal to the average conservative republican, but would probably…

I Want to Teach my Child About Sex by Dr. Karl and Shannon Wendt is a step by step book on how parents should prepare and execute the talk about sex with their children. From a traditional Christian perspective, the authors lead the parents through courage building, researching, the initial talk and continued education. This book begins with the authors pointing out the fact that this can be a very awkward time for parents and helping them build up the courage to begin this extremely necessary…

Effects of Condom Availability Programs Sex education has been very controversial over the past several years, and one of the major questions is whether teachers should be informing kids about safe sex or abstinence. This point prompted research and studies that shed some light on abstinence programs and how influential they claim to be. The outcome is shocking. More students in abstinence-only programs become pregnant than students who are taught safe sex. This statistic is growing and it…

practice of safe sex at an early age, it will help avert teenage sexual transmitted infections/ diseases, it will help lower and prevent teenage pregnancy rate from rising. Paragraph II A. To begin with I believe condoms should be more accessible to teens because it encourages and educates the youth on the practice of safe sex at an early age. 1. Schooling that educates the youth about abstinence and safe sex as well as contraception, including condom use, will help them to delay first sex. •…

2015 Sexual Education According to the University of Kansas historian Jeffrey P. Morgan in his book Teaching, Sex, sexual education was first thought about in 1913 when Chicago public schools instituted a lecture series for girls and, separately, boys, on “physiology, moral hygiene and venereal disease” (Friedman). Americans have viewed adolescent sexuality as an impulse to be controlled or, better, repressed. Sex education has mainly aimed at saving teenage girls from early sex, and, therefore…

student needs to be taught the importance of safe sex. Without the proper education of sex education there are risks. In an article written by Dennis Prager ” A Speech Every American High School Principal Should give“ he states that “No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as a primarily health issue”. I disagree with this statement. Sex education has been proven to help young people to delay sex, and to use contraception when they do…

Ohio area, that sexual education may help with the numbers. The determining factors in helping include the unawareness of this disease. The percentages are differences in the numbers from the range of the numbers. From data, statistics, the highest recorded percentages were the age group of twenty to twenty-four years old. Sexual education can be taught with being vocal such imagery. These images can include charts and posters that can hung around building, wall and schools. This cans a…

abstinence-only sex education in schools leads to many societal repercussions in areas where this education is taught. Abstinence-only education is the only sex education to teach children in schools is to abstain from sex. The issue of teaching abstinence is an important issue to address because the area in which abstinence-only education faces societal repercussions. Some of these societal repercussions are increased teen pregnancy, increased STD rates, and belief in sex myths. Abstinence-only…

In 2013, a young girl from Coney Island, New York Attended Abraham Lincoln High School. She was 16 years old, and a junior: one year away from college, and she had big dreams. Unfortunately, like many teens she had unprotected sex and her ambitions were muddled with possible scenarios of pregnancy or STD’s. However, she knew she could help. She found herself in the nurse 's offices, which was tucked away in the school basement, in order to be given the popular contraceptive Plan B. The nurse…