...Comprehensive Sex Education Teenage pregnancy rates are higher in American than they are in most other industrialized countries. This is a direct cause of the prominence of abstinence-only-before-marriage (commonly known as abstinence-only) education in United States schools. Besides teen pregnancy, abstinence-only education does more harm to America’s youth. There is a debate being discussed about how sexual education should be taught in schools. Even though abstinence-only education in schools promotes abstinence, a comprehensive sex education provides teenagers with accurate information, has community support, and empowers youth. Comprehensive and abstinence-only education are two very different approaches to the teachings of sexual education. Comprehensive education provides extensive information about contraceptive use, prevention of STDs, and sexual health while also promoting abstinence. It is an open-minded program that exposes students to some controversial topics like sexual orientation and gender identity while other types of programs often shy away from these discussions. On the other hand, abstinence-only education programs promote abstinence as the only option for teenagers and young adults...
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...of paramount importance for your child to learn all possible advantages and disadvantage of sex. Communication plays an important role in the development of intimate sexuality. (Troth p195-218) Today, as young people embark on their first sexual relationships in a threatening climate of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including the potentially fatal HIV/AIDS virus, the value of practicing communication and negotiation to facilitate the uptake of safe sex has far-reaching implications for health and well-being. However, communication between parents and are a bit uncomfortable with topics like condoms, STDs, and past sexual partners is a difficult task for many young people whose health may be placed in jeopardy by their inability to discuss safe sex. Public schools are now making sex education apart of their curriculum. However, the controversy arises as to whether sex education should be based on abstinence or a “safe sex” model. Critics of the “safe sex” program claim that teaching safe sex is another way of giving consent to engage in intercourse. Isn’t the bigger issue ensuring that students are prepared for any type of situation they find themselves in? What good is abstinence based course if they are already engaged in sexual activities? It is a proven fact that an abstinence based course doesn’t yield results. Therefore all public schools should teach...
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...have talked to their children about sexual education, leaving eighteen percent to figure it out on their own. Everyone has their own opinion on if sexual education should be taught in public schools and one may find it crazy that kids don't get a good education on sexual activity, and others find it crazy that kids learn that. If every state required a good sexual education no one could do anything about it and everyone would get the same education. Believe it or not there's much rivalry whether or not sexual education should taught since the 1960's. There has been much controversy about this for a long time, and groups against it affected a lot. How else would the children who's parents don't talk to them find out. In the 1970's 20 states voted to restrict or abolish sexual education being taught in schools. By the end of the decade only three states had required sexual education. (Kentucky, Maryland, and New Jersey) Classes for sexual education would teach a wide range of topics. Such...
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...opportunities for education are available like never before. Though teachers using online tools are empowering students take part in their education, they may also expose them to inappropriate material, sexual predators, and bullying and harassment by peers. Teachers who are not careful with their use of the sites can fall into inappropriate relationships with students or publicize photos and information they believed were kept private. For these reasons, critics are calling for regulation and for removing social networking from classrooms -- despite the positive affects they have on students and the essential tools they provide for education in today's digital climate. The positive effects of social networking sites in education are profound. According to a study conducted by the University of Minnesota on student use of social media, students who are already engaging in social networking could benefit from incorporating it into curriculum. Christine Greenhow, who was the principal investigator in a study, elaborated on the impact social networking could have on education. "By understanding how students may be positively using these networking technologies in their daily lives and where the as-yet-unrecognized educational opportunities are, we can help make schools even more relevant, connected, and meaningful to kids." Through utilizing teaching techniques that incorporate social media, teachers are able to increase students' engagement in their education, increase technological...
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...to prevent pregnancy. The U.S. government has implemented sexual education in public schools for many years now. However, these programs only teach the younger population about abstinence-only education. Teaching our adolescence about abstaining does not stop them from engaging in sexual activities. This country can reduce the overabundance of unwed teenage mothers by educating our teenagers about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s), as well as abstinence-until-marriage. At one point in time teenage marriage was accepted and thought of as the norm. Many ancestors within family trees throughout the nation are filled with young wives and mothers. Time, culture, and the economy prevent younger couples from taking part in the union of marriage. The financial inability to support a family in today’s frugal world has put a damper on the morality of marriage. In essence, society has helped promote teenage sexuality. The two most crucial outbreaks among our younger society is out-of-wedlock childbearing and sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) (175). A large number of kids today are not educated on the harm of STD’s and STI’s. Our public schools are only required to lectures about ghese effects to Jr. High and High School students, one day per school year. Up until recently it was up to parents to prepare their children from the harms of unprotected sex. Many families today are dysfunctional and teaching kids about preventing disease and using contraception while...
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...Introduction: Sexual education teaches people that sexuality is a natural, normal, healthy part of life and sexual education is needed in high schools to teach young adults not only the dangers of sex such as unwanted pregnancies or STDs, as well as the many other aspects to sex that aren’t spoken about such as identifying ones sexual preference (gay, straight etc.), relationships, protection, the emotional aspect of it, the maturity required and how sex actually works and not just the sexual organs which is what is usually taught to young adults who are going through adolescence which is a very challenging time for many. Sexual education should clarify the issues involved with the topic and not confuse people. Sexual education is needed everywhere...
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...important issue. Sexual abstinence was the normal society lifestyle until the late 1950 s. Most men and women would not have ever slept with another person out of wedlock. While this sexual abstinence lifestyle was in effect, a mentality of independence struck the adolescence of the United States. They felt as though they must engage in sexual activity, just to defy society s view of Premarital Sex Premarital sex, an act that is practiced excessively in the world today, is not all that it is caught up to be. It definitely has more side effects than benefits. ... what was morally right. The reason sexual abstinence is an issue today is because many people claim premarital sex is wrong. People base their opinions on what the Bible has said. When the Bible is used to justify any means of behavior, it usually becomes a moral issue. The main issue at hand is whether premarital sex is classified as morally right or wrong. The Catholic Church claims that premarital sex is wrong and immoral. Premarital Sex Pre-Marital Sex During the twentieth century, premarital sex has become an important issue. Sexual abstinence was the normal society lifestyle until the late 1950 s. Most men and ... Not only does the Catholic Church believe this, so does nearly every other Christian faith. In many other countries, premarital sex is not as huge of an issue as it is here in the US. The basis for this is unsure, but religion and culture seem to play into it largely. In the 1990 s, the teaching of abstinence...
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...Who is Responsible for Sex Education? Writing 291 Joseph A. Marco 22 July 2010 Public schools systems have been implementing sexual education into their classrooms as a regular part of instruction for decades. Ongoing controversies exist when dealing with this issue whether sex education being taught in the public schools or whether it should be considered the responsibility of the parents. It seems most parents are either for or against it and very rarely are they standing on middle ground. Given the statistics does it matter who teaches the children of the United States the basics of sex education? Children should receive a basic unbiased and informative sex education in school, from their it should be the parents responsibility. By their 18th birthday, six in 10 teenage women and more than 5 in 10 teenage men have had sexual intercourse. Of the approximately 750,000 teen pregnancies that occur each year, 82 percent are unintended with more than one quarter ending abortion. The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world – almost twice as high as England, Canada, and Wales and eight times as high as the Netherlands and Japan. In addition to the teen pregnancy rate, the teens in the United States contract roughly nine million new sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) each year. Though teens in the United States have levels of sexual activity similar to levels among their Canadian, English, French, and Swedish...
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...solving this issue. There is no argument to say there has not been an effort placed to solve this issue. Although there is cohesion in the attempt to resolve this conflict, there is disagreement to find the best way to deal with this issue. The argument surrounding the most effective way to reduce STD infection rate has involved government officials, school officials, health officials, religious figures, and parents. Many people ask where the real controversy on this issue is. For a simple question, there is not a simple answer. The disagreement rises from whether abstinence only should be taught or a comprehensive sex education program that teaches the consequences of sexual activity. Some people believe abstinence is the most effective method to help the STD infection rate become reduced. Other critics feel that a comprehensive sex program is the best method. Just like an onion the topic of sex education has many layers. The debate against sex education has another level involving who should be responsible for these teachings. While the standpoints on the issue are realized, it is important to place figures in these perspectives. Some people feel as though the parents should teach their children about sex and sexually transmitted diseases. This can go further into what method works best and how should parents teach their children. Should parents monitor their kids or talk to them...
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...Taisacan Professor Noha Kabaji English C100 Sex Education “Sex education is a process of life – nutrition, respiration, excretion, sensitivity, movement, growth and reproduction. As parents we teach, guide and nurture our children through childhood and adolescence towards adulthood, providing them with the skills and knowledge to make safe choices on the food they eat, the sports they participate in and safe personal hygiene. Sex education is not about giving people the facts; it is also about teaching skills to enable young people to use that information effectively and to moderate behaviors according to the information and knowledge at hand.” Every parent knows that there are lots of responsibilities when it comes to nurturing and discipline. Since sex education is a sensitive topic, a lot of controversy emerged concerning the right age for teenagers to explore sex education and the appropriate approach for the adolescence to understand the purpose of the topic. The increase of teen pregnancy and sexual transmitted disease among adolescence brought attention to the society. To prevent or to reduce the incident, the government recommended adding sex education to the curriculum. By providing the right information to teens will prevent or reduce the number of teen pregnancy and other health issues they might face. However, despite of the good intention, their are other parents or organization disagree with sex education because of their religious beliefs or culture indifference...
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...Sex Education in Schools Anquavese Jones ENG/102 06/26/2011 Becky Wilfahrt Abstract Teenage sex education is a topic of much debate in America’s schools because sex and its health related issues are prevalent in the lives of so many adolescents. Teenagers’ engagement in sexual activities has led to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases, emotional and psychological injuries, and out-of-wedlock childbearing (Rector, 2002, para. 1). Therefore, schools across the nation have been charged with implementing programs that will educate the young about the risks of engaging in sexual activities before marriage. America’s schools use one of the two commonly known approaches in hopes to deter premarital sex. These approaches are abstinence education and comprehensive sex education. Abstinence education is a type of sex education that places strict emphasis on abstaining from sex until marriage. Comprehensive sex education examines abstinence along with sexual reproductive health education and contraceptives. This paper will examine both approaches and show that comprehensive sex education is the most effective method. Introduction Sex is a hot topic that reaches many children through the different mediums to include school, internet, radio, and television. An effective way to arm our children with important data concerning sex education is by providing abstinence education in our schools. According to Powezek, in the United States, maturation classes are usually implemented...
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...Jeremy Franz Professor Cruz Freshman English 1 17 Nov. 2015 Teenagers Using Birth Control Birth control is highly discussed topic across all age demographics. It has been debated on both sides for years and it’s sparked a lot of controversy recently. The term birth control covers a wide variety of contraceptives, from simple condoms to something more complex such as a small plastic bar that is implanted under a woman’s skin. Birth control has become very popular among teenagers due to its exceedingly high percentage for success. While none of the birth control options offer a 100 percent success rate, nearly all are in the upper 90s. Since most of the options use some form of contraceptive, there are arguments for allowing teenagers access to birth control as well as against it. With teenagers engaging in sexual activities at an increasingly younger age, it is important to provide them with access to the proper birth control. If birth control was not available to teenagers, they would just have sex without it which will lead to thousands of unintended pregnancies. It’s not possible to prevent teens from having sex which is why it is important to ensure they are properly equipped. Conversely, those opposed feel that giving teen’s birth control will encourage them to have sex earlier than they should. They feel that teenagers are too young to be engaging in sex and giving teens birth control gives them a reason to have sex. The United States is known for having...
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...issue. Despite this controversy there are still many people who support Planned Parenthood. These people recognize that there are several reasons why Planned Parenthood should not be defunded. The Federal Government should continue to fund Planned Parenthood because women are able to have access to essential reproductive health services, affordable health care and there are negative repercussions for public health if Planned Parenthood was defunded. Women are able to have access to essential reproductive health services through Planned Parenthood as long as the Federal Government...
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...kind of sexual relation such as vaginal, oral, or anal intercourse because HPV spreads through skin to skin contact. The HPV infection is asymptomatic and without medical treatment may result in cervical, vulvar, vaginal, penile, anal, and oropharyngeal cancer (Lindley et al. 18). Being the cervical cancer the most frequent cancer among women. Prevalence of HPV among females at age of 14 to 59 years old was 42.5%. Being the prevalence among 20-24 years old women equal to 53.8%. Thus, an important public health...
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...no man other than God himself. If I allowed my faith to be tested, I will be of strong belief and value. I am worth more than riches and wealth. I walk with grace and poise; I take no sympathy for I strive to be of movement each day. I am Feminism, the advocacy aiming to define and defend equal rights for women. In addition, I am seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. Over decades, there have been movements for women to have the same rights as men. Many advocates say feminism is important, because it is equal across all spectrums of race, class, sex, and sexuality. It will always be a movement for particularly women, but it seems to expand across time. In this present day in age, society has evolved across time, and media has made some differences in advertisements, TV shows and films. On the contrary, there are events that still appear on the web, social media and within music, specifically. For example, I was surfing the web, and ran across different artist. Some statements made were about women empowerment, body image/politics and sexual objectification, specifically the artist Beyoncé. The purpose of this essay is to discuss how Beyoncé’s song Flawless depicts feminism as well as redefining beauty. To accomplish this purpose, first I will discuss Beyoncé’s song flawless. Second, I will compare feminism to Beyoncé’s lyrics of the song flawless. Finally, I will summarize and give scholarly insight and implications on future...
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