Kayla Chandler English 1113- Section 204 Professor McPhate 24 April 2010 Abstinence-Only Programs: Friend or Fiend? We’ve all been through the routine of the abstinence-only sexual education class. The fun of ditching the usual science lecture‚ slowly killed by high-pitched voice of a curly-headed old woman (usually with a golden‚ Christian cross hanging gingerly across her chest) rambling on and on about the dangers and horrors of premarital sex. After an hour or so of mildly intimidating
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Many do not think about abstinence programs when thinking about sexual education. Abstinence programs can be found all around America as well as all around the world. There are 84% of teens that have had abstinence only education. In the US‚ all schools are required to teach sexual education‚ “26 of states require that abstinence be stressed more than any other form of sexual education”. (Health Research Funding) In this generation there are statistics showing that there is a great amount of teens
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whether schools should teach abstinence only programs or comprehensive sex education has been debated rigorously. Through his 2013 published piece‚ “Educating for Character in the Sexual Domain”‚ author Thomas Lickona focuses on the benefits of abstinence only programs. He uses the argument that abstinence creates character in today’s youth and cites multiple sources that support his viewpoint. On the other side of the discussion‚ authors of the article “Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy
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Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage: Not the Best Message for Teens Cesar Pita University of Houston Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage: Not the Best Message for Teens Sue Alford is the Advocates for Youth director and editor of public services information. She lists several problems of abstinence-only education Alford argues that the young adults are getting messages and information about sex from so many different sources that to restrict sexuality and educators to discuss abstinence only would
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Although “abstinence-only” education may be the more common sexual education program‚ comprehensive programs that incorporate various curricula will provide adolescents with the tools necessary to develop healthy relationships‚ and become productive citizens. Although adolescents are impacted the most by sexual education policy they have the least influence in affecting it. In many cases teens have a negative opinion of abstinence programs
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Abstinence-Only Programs Are Ineffective According to Debra W. Haffner‚ “There are no published studies in the professional literature indicating that abstinence-only programs will result in young people delaying intercourse.”(…) In correlation with the growth of teen pregnancy‚ the desire to experiment with a partner‚ and the advancement of more effective contraceptives‚ abstinence-only sex education is not the proper teaching for teenage students. Critics of abstinence-only education propose
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One of the implications of abstinence-only sex education is that it is ineffective in its desired outcome and therefore puts young people in danger by not providing them with the appropriate knowledge to practice safe sex. According to an article by the Guttmacher Institute‚ ““Despite years of evaluation in this area‚ there is no evidence to date that abstinence-only education delays teen sexual activity” (Guttmacher‚ 2006). Abstinence-only education can be harmful because it doesn’t curtail sexual
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Sexual Education: Comprehensive Vs. Abstinence-Only High school is either the best days of your life or four years of struggling and mild torture for teens‚ and the pressure to be sexually active can push adolescents towards the latter. The idea that sexual activity is the ticket to popularity is burned into teens brains by the media‚ through television‚ major label music‚ and movies‚ their peers‚ and celebrity role models. They are bombarded with images and sounds dripping with sexual innuendos
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Abstinence-Only Sexual Education The two forms of sexual education taught in America are comprehensive (abstinence‚ safe sex‚ diseases) and abstinence-only (no sex till marriage). Abstinence-only sex education in the schools of the United States of America are bad for teenagers and won’t make a large difference in this country to a great extent because they don’t fully inform and aware students. States with abstinence-only sex education rank the highest in the numbers of underage pregnancies
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Mandated Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Abstinence is a significant issue in the lives of teens in the status quo. Consequently‚ sexual education has had a major impact as the federal government promotes Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage programs in hope of preventing issues such as the rate of teen pregnancies and STDs‚ but may not be successful in comparison to comprehensive sex education programs. Thus‚ as stated in Sue Alford’s persuasive article ‘What’s Wrong with Federal Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage
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