The Failure of Abstinence-Only Sexual Education

Many parents are concerned about unhealthy or dangerous behaviors such as reckless driving, drinking, using drugs, unprotected sex. For many parents, the only obvious solution is to try to conceal children's sexual facts. Other parents put out a statement at the end of the world stating a statement about what happens if a child participates in sex before marriage, so as to abstinence a teenager.

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.

Years of research showed that abstinence education fails in everything it does: it does not delay the onset of sexual activity and it does not reduce teen pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases . Sexual behavior is high. According to the US Sexual Education Information Board of Education (SIECUS), students stunned as part of the sex education program are 6 times more likely to do oral sex than non prostitutes, more anal sex than non - prostitutes The possibility of having four times higher. I commit to my colleagues. The likelihood that these teenagers will use contraceptives will also decrease by a factor of 3 If you are sexually active, the chance of using a condom will decrease by 10% - most people will Do this with - nine teenagers get married a forbidden promise