There are many groups of people ranging from parents, teachers, and other activist groups that have their way of teaching adolescents about sexual education. But as studies are done, people may notice that changing their information to adolescents could help by preventing future problems.
If sex education was comprehensive, adolescents would be taught more about details with performing sex other than just abstinence if sex education was not comprehensive. David Satcher states the view that it should be comprehensive and argues the fact that, “Most European nations not only embrace comprehensive sexuality education but also integrate it into government-sponsored programs” (2006, p.3). These programs that a lot of European nations do show that the U.S. has a greater teen pregnancy rates than they do. If only taught abstinence alone, the ones that do have sex could screw up 100% of the time and all of them would be pregnant.
Instead of teaching abstinence and being comprehensive, adults should educate adolescents very well about sex and everything that goes with whether good or bad. Like most kids at that age they are going to do what you tell them not to do. So adults should teach them starting with the puberty era all the way through STD's and pregnancy. There are problems like contraceptives that adolescents may not know are available or how to use them. They need to know what to do if something does happen like a condom breaking or coming off as well.
All of these categories and examples could happen every time if adolescents are only taught abstinence. Educate them with the best of knowledge that you or others that you know have and talk to them. If you can not talk to them or have the information about sex, have someone else help you out so your child is prepared before hand.
Here is one of the problems though for teaching comprehensive sex education, COMMUNICATION. Parents need to talk to their kid(s) about sex or something bad may happen. Burgess, et. al., talk about communication and how it is important in help reducing STD's and/or pregnancies (2005). Parents feel uncomfortable when having to talk about sex just like they do when talking about drugs. Drugs may be an easier topic, but either way parents do not want their children having sex without at least knowing the risks.
Parents or other adults need to break through this mental barrier and realize that if they or someone else does not talk to their kids or others about sex and its consequences, then there may be a worse time in your and your kid's life when they come up and say they are pregnant. Now you will have to talk to them about a worse topic that may include that they ruined their life and all of it was caused by not communicating with them. This would be the parents own fault and the adolescent taught his self instead of getting all of the right information before hand.
There is a lot more to teaching adolescents about sex other than just telling them to not do it, abstinence. Even telling them that, they are likely to go have sex without the necessary knowledge. Instead of just telling adolescents not to have sex, inform them about everything that there is and what could happen whether good or bad. The main thing with sex education is that it needs to be comprehensive and adults that have the appropriate knowledge to teach should before something bad could happen.
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