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    Effective Sex Education Each year‚ U.S. teens experience as many as 850‚000 pregnancies‚ and youth under age 25 experience about 9.1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs).1‚2 By age 18‚ 70 percent of U.S. females and 62 percent of U.S. males have initiated vaginal sex.3 Comprehensive sex education is effective at assisting young people to make healthy decisions about sex and to adopt healthy sexual behaviors.4‚5‚6‚7 No abstinence-only-until-marriage program has been shown to help teens delay

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    English Comp 1 13 April 2014 Sex Education Sex education is a necessity for our youth. A large amount of teens are never educated on what may happen if they decide to have sex. They are not taught the reality of sexually transmitted infections or teenage pregnancy. Could changing this help our children and future generations make the right choices or at least be knowledgeable of the risks involved when having sex? Teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases can be better prevented with

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    Teen Pregnancy and Sex Education The consensus is that sex education is necessary for pre-teen and teenagers to receive information about their bodies‚ reduce the risk of pregnancy‚ and disease (Combellick & Brindis‚ 2011). Many states have mandates on the curriculum of sex education and what grades to present the information to the students (Jacobson‚ 2011). On average‚ students receive sex education in 6th or 7th grade and 9th or 10th grade (Bigos‚ 2012). The problem is in

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    Comprehensive sex education plays a key role in the growth of young people. It provides knowledge that aids in the development of teenagers and helps them gain a positive outlook on sexuality. Comprehensive sex education is a process that promotes learning about sexuality and achieving sexual health. It is an effective and beneficial necessity that should be implemented in all schools. Because of a few basic‚ yet crucial reasons‚ I believe that schools need better and more comprehensive sex education. The

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    of life are created through the baseline of their childhood. Educating a young child about sex can be a difficult subject to come across. Schools around the world have slowly incorporated some type of abstinence-only sex education for children‚ yet‚ the sex education that students receive lack a good foundation for them. The abstinence- only sex education program only focuses on promoting abstinence from sex‚ character building‚ does not teach about contraception and condom use‚ avoids talking about

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    Sex education should be taught in public middle schools because: it decreases the chance of sexual diseases and teenage pregnancies‚ it is needed in case of a parents’ absence or neglect‚ and it also provides more knowledge about how sex works while debunking the myths surrounding sexual intercourse‚ and it makes some want to set goals for relationships. People say sex education encourages youth to engage in sexual activities rather than preventing sex. This is true; however‚ studies show that when

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    Abstinence vs Sex Education Teen pregnancy rates throughout the nation are very high‚ and many people are trying to figure out how to cut theses rates down. Teaching abstinence or sex education in school has been a major issue throughout the United States for years. Many high schools teach abstinence- only in an attempt to lower the teenage pregnancy rates throughout the country. Many people believe sex education is what needs to be taught in high schools so teenagers are not going in blind and

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    Mandatory Sex Education in Schools What is the right age to begin teaching sex education to kids? About 820‚000 young women are pregnant before the age of twenty. There is no denying that teen pregnancy has risen tremendously in the past few years. Girls younger and younger are becoming pregnant. Babies essentially are having babies. These young girls do not personally have the ability to raise a child when they are only a child themselves. Financially they are unable to care for the baby and that

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    (STD) – the most common being human papillomavirus‚ which can cause cervical cancer‚ followed by chlamydia and trichomiasis. Approximately 50% of African American teens have at least one STD‚ compared to 20% of white and Mexican American teens” (“Sex Education in Schools: Timeline”). B. “According to the Centers for Disease Control and the Kaiser Family Foundation‚ approximately 65 percent of all sexually transmitted infections contracted by Americans this year will occur in people under 24. One in four

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    Should schools teach more about sex education? Would it help boys and girls be safer? Would there be less Sexually Transmitted Diseases or more? “The truth is if teens learned more about sex then there would be less teen pregnancies and less STDs.” ("5 Reasons Schools Should Adopt LGBTQ-inclusive Sex Ed.") I think teen pregnancies are unfortunate and teens should really think more about the consequence and how it can affect your life. “Most students‚ however‚ do not receive any instruction until

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