Which education actually works the best in high school? Abstinence or condoms? Anybody know statistics?

Question

SERIOUS QUESTION.

Answer 1

condoms. just fresh from highschool (2 yrs) and trust me, that abstinence thing does not work. infact, even mentioning that word makes the ones that are sexualy active just laugh. its sad. really, 1 in 4 americans have STD's and only 74% know it. just imagine how many of them are teens.

here, i just looked it up, sorry its so much!!

Sex, Teen Pregnancy, STDs, HIV/AIDS

Teen Pregnancy

The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $7 billion annually.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy


Nearly four in 10 young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 - nearly one million a year. Eight in ten of these pregnancies are unintended and 79 percent are to unmarried teens.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy


The teen birth rate has declined slowly but steadily from 1991 to 2001, with an overall decline of 26 percent for those aged 15 to 19.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy


The younger a teenage girl is when she has sex for the first time, the more likely she is to have had unwanted or non-voluntary sex. Close to four in ten girls who had first intercourse at 13 or 14 report it was either non-voluntary or unwanted.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy


Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school (only 33% receive a high school diploma) and more likely to end up on welfare (nearly 80% of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare).
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy


One of every 3 girls has had sex by age 16 and 2 out of 3 by age 18. Two of 3 boys have had sex by age 18.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy


A majority of both girls and boys who are sexually active wish they had waited. Eight in ten girls and six in ten boys say they wish they had waited until they were older to have sex.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy


Fewer than half of high school students have had sex.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
STDs

Every year 3 million teens--about 1 in 4 sexually active teens -- get a sexually transmitted disease (STD).
American Social Health Association


Chlamydia is more common among teens than among older men and women.
American Social Health Association


Teens have higher rates of gonorrhea than do sexually active men and women aged 20-44.
American Social Health Association


Some studies show that up to 15% of sexually active teenage women are infected with the human papilloma virus (HPV), many with the type of HPV that is linked to cervical cancer.
American Social Health Association

HIV/AIDS

Young Americans between the ages of 13 and 24 are still contracting HIV at the rate of 2 per hour.
Office of National AIDS Policy


Half of all new infections are thought to occur in people under 25.
Office of National AIDS Policy


Each year 3,000 adolescents contract sexually transmitted diseases, which is about one in four sexually experienced teens.
Office of National AIDS Policy


Almost 50% of teachers who teach about HIV/AIDS reported spending only one or two class periods on the topic.
Office of National AIDS Policy


Twenty-five percent of U.S. high school students said that they were under the influence of alcohol or drugs when they last engaged in sexual activity.
Office of National AIDS Policy


In a recent survey, 87% of young Americans said they do not believe they are at risk for HIV infection.
Office of National AIDS Policy

Answer 2

all the info recommend otherwise. In faculties the place abstinence-purely "intercourse" practise is taught, the style of teenager pregnancies is on the upward thrust. In faculties the place intercourse practise is taught inclusive of advice approximately all forms of delivery administration, there has many times been a leveling contained in the style of teenager pregnancies and specifically cases even a shrink. I discovered this 2 an prolonged time in the past while i became analyzing sociology. yet I now no longer have my notes from the learning. It became hence that I allowed my toddlers to circulate into training the place intercourse practise became taught. It became hence that I supported intercourse practise being taught in faculties. that's hence that I incorporate such practise in training that I tutor as properly.

Answer 3

Both. People are going to have sex whether you want them to or not; so teach the best way is abstinence but if you do have sex use protection. That's how it was taught at my school. And it seems to have worked pretty well.

Answer 4

Hand out condoms to all the girls and tell them to choose wisely and to give the fat boys a chance.

Answer 5

if u want a real answer take the first guy's

Answer 6

ur in big trouble mister!