The Failure of Abstinence-Only Education

"Do not love because you become pregnant and die, do not love in the position of a missionary Do not stand up Do not stand up OK let's promise, now everyone has rubber "Carl said in a movie" Zagall "that it is similar to the situation of school teenagers throughout the country, others did not use condoms at all. But when a teenage girl finally got pregnant, no one asked if she really had a contraceptive, or if she really understood the danger of sexual activity.

Supporters argue that the theme of abstinence education is controversial in the United States, that comprehensive sex education encourages pre-marriage sex, critics are religious motives, and this method is invalid Or even harmful. Your own goal of teaching abstinence teaches children and young people to avoid sexual activity. It is the only way to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STI). Focusing on the importance of "family values", the program tells abstinence until marriage becomes a standard of living.

There are two main forms of sex education in the United States. Comprehensive sex education and abstinence. Comprehensive education is also known as abstinence, abstinence, abstinence plus risk mitigation and sexual risk mitigation education. This approach uses abstinence as an option, but also to inform adolescent young people about sexual behavior, to agree on the availability of age and contraceptives, and techniques to avoid contraction of sexually transmitted diseases I'm waiting. Sex education, restricted to abstinence, is also known as abstinence basis, abstinence until marriage, sexual risk avoidance, and recent youth empowerment education. This approach emphasizes the prohibition of sexual activity before marriage and refuses contraception. These two methods are very different in philosophy and strategy of educating young people about sexual behavior.

American schools only teach two kinds of sex education, "abstinence plus" and "abstinence". Abstinence Plus (also known as comprehensive education) treats abstinence as a positive choice, but also teaches prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and sexual activity during contraception. According to the 2002 survey by the Kaiser Foundation Foundation, 58% of the secondary school principals explained that sex education is "abstinence plus." Among the 48 state states (excluding North Dakota state and Wyoming state) 2005 state laws and policies, 21 states emphasize abstinence education and 7 emphasize that seven should teach abstinence in their own sex education program doing. Eleven states only require students to undertake comprehensive and ascetic education, and nine states do not mention any form of sex education in their laws and policies.