Sex Education

How did this happen, how am I pregnant I didn’t have sex with him? A fifteen year old girl is pregnant. Had she of been educated properly about sexuality then she would have know that there does not need to be penetration during sexual activity to become pregnant. This girl could have also contacted an STD also. “Sex education involves the teaching of useful knowledge and related skills of critical issues related to sexuality, including intimacy, human relationships, sexual identy and gender roles, reproductive anatomy and boby image, puberty and the reproductive process, emotional aspects of maturation, the value of continued abstinence among teens who are not sexually active, alternative methods of contraceptions and HIV/STD’s prevention and the health consequences of avoiding contraceptives and prevention methods among sexually active youth.”(definition provided by www.healthhi.discovery.com) Acording to studies teen and adolescent sexuality is influenced first by parents, then their peers and then last by what is learned by schools. (www.health.discovery.com) This proves that children should be educated by their parents, however if a parent is unable to properly educate their child, they would need to be able to have the correct information provided to them and that is where sex education needs to be provided in the school systems. Sex education that is provided in the school system is generally at a high school level and are abstinence only programs. A better offered program is abstinence plus or comprehensive sex education. LI (http://ari.ucsf.edu/science/reports/abstinence.pdf)
“Sexuality education in the schools is a hot button issue in part because it is closely intertwined with social and parental interpretations of right and wrong, and with people’s feelings about religion and personal autonomy.” “sex education is also intended to serve a very practical public health purpose – to reduce STIs, HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancy among the country’s young... [continues]

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