In "Educating Teenagers about sex in the United States. The magority of sex education takes place in 6th-8th grade where they learn how to say no to sex, methods of birth control, STDs and how to prevent HIV/AIDs. Sex education helps reduce teen pregnancy and STDs but goes againts what some parents want to be taught.

“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)” (McKeon). As these numbers stick out to any ordinary person, schools still have not taken the initiative to teach sex education. Sex education can be explained in two different ways comprehensive or abstinence only. The difference of the two is that comprehensive sex …show more content…
Although if practiced it is proven to be effective, but most teenagers do not intend to stay abstinent . The focus is primarly on the fact that waiting until marriage is the conventional thing to do. The difficulty with this is that it does not deal with the other percentage of children who decide to engage in premarital sex. The Center for Disease
Control and Prevention conveyed that, “56 percent of high school students are still virgins”
(Martin 245). This shows that a little less than half of teenagers have engaged in sex, which means the abstinence approach is probably not the most reasonable way to go. “Of the approximately 850,000 teen pregnancies that occur each year, 82% are unintended”
(Guttmacher), which only goes to show they are not being taught how to protect themselves when educated. While still preached in schools, abstinence-only has not been proved applicable to adolescences lives. “No abstinence-only-until-marriage program has been shown to help teens delay the initiation of sex or to protect themselves when they do initiate sex” …show more content…
No matter if sex education is provided, teenage pregnancy remains to be an issue in our country. “The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world” (Guttmacher). Being such a large issue in our nation, it is importent to enforce sex education and abstinance. Some parents feel that teaching their kids about the subject will make them want to be sexually active, but it is more important to not leave the students blindsided at the consequences and facts that come with sexual activity. The world cannot be heated at these statistics if nothing is being done to help enlighten the youth. Roland
Martin expresses his views when saying, “How in the world do we say it's OK for schools to teach our children about math, science, history, and numerous other subjects, yet then get high and mighty with righteous indignation when biology is taken a step further to focus on sex?”
(Martin). Parents keeping the their kids away from this information could hurt them when they are faced with the choice of sex.

“Whether it's safe sex practices or even abstinence, all of these