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ENGL 111-D40
Argumentative essay
Sex education in high schools
High schools should provide better sexual education. Prevention is better than cure. The federal government should provide more information in schools and required sex education in the first year of high school. This is important because there are a lot of sexually transmitted diseases, teenage pregnancy, and teen abortions.
Boskey (2011) stated that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are “some of the most difficult diseases in the world to catch” (para1). Although there are a lot of resources available to obtain information such as the internet, books and magazines most of the time teens do not take the time to read so there should be required classes …show more content…
The bad news for our community is that New Mexico is the state with the most teen pregnant moms, ninety three per one thousand, followed by Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Mississippi. (Kost, K. and Henshaw, S and Carlin, L 2010). We need to prevent teen pregnancy because is affecting a lot of people in a lot of ways such as economically, socially and morally. The solution is to provide information and advert the youths about the risk and consequences of having sex without …show more content…
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