sex education?

Question

Should the responsibility of teaching sex education fall on the parents of teens?

Answer 1

But some parents are uncomfortable in talking about that, which is why I do not mind a disintered third party doing this

Answer 2

In an ideal world - yes - parents would educate their children and create an open environment where a child could ask their parent anything and know they were going to get an honest, truthful, straight forward answer.

But since the world isn't always ideal, it's important that teens get the truth and information about sex from a reliable & creditable source.

Most parents don't want to think about their child being intimate with some one so I think it is easier for teachers to give the facts to a child since they are a bit removed from the 'closeness' a parent has to their child. Teachers are able to give a more clinical explanation.

It's a hudge responsibilty and I thank those who do it.

Answer 3

Responsibility of teaching a child everything falls on the parent. The school is there as a learning facility but Its the parents job to teach and raise the child. Schools are wrong as they are right.

Answer 4

how are the parents supposed to know what ALL the different STD's are, how to prevent each of them, and what the signs of each are if the parents weren't taught it in school and their parents weren't taught it and so on...people need to get the information somewhere and lets' face it, people aren't going to go out of their way if it's not an issue they've haven't had to deal with or wasn't taught to them properly by adults that KNOW what they are talking about in that area of health. and by not educating the teens the consequences of sex or how to prevent pregnancy and std's, the cycle is just going to repeat itself.
but for those that really feel it is the parents responsibility, in order for the information to truly get across to the teen, there should be a mandatory class for the parents to learn about std's and such.
people have to learn from someplace...

Answer 5

as a teen i have learned alot from my peers. Highschoolers are having sex and talking about it. In all actuality parents probally only know the basics and can only tell you what they know. Teachers are trained and informed about sexual education as a whole vs. the phisical aspects that parents would usually teach almost exclusively

Answer 6

I think all long as the kids are getting this much needed information from a responsible person or program. My parents never talked about sex or how to be safe. I learned it the hard way, I got pregnant at the tender age of fifteen. I wished someone or anyone had talked to me about how to be safe or that they cared enough to be open with me about these things..That's why my son, who i had at 15, knows that abstinence is the best practice but if he can't not abstain from having sex, that he knows how to protect himself not only from getting a girl pregnant but also from STD's

Answer 7

Yes. Unfortunately the Judeo-christian religion which is predominate in the US has made sex education an immoral issue. One not to be taught to children. Eventually a nation of sexually ignorant children were having children. Which is why the rest of us stepped up, and insisted that these children be taught the truth at some point in their lives, and not to shame their bodies, or the uncontrollable urges they have.

Answer 8

I think all adults in the childs life can help, and look at some of the parents they don't talk about it or are too embarrassed or their children are to hear it from them. They need as much education as they can get.

Answer 9

Yes and no. We just discussed this in class yesterday and agreed that parents should take a strong role in this area, but also recognized the fact that many are uncomfortable doing so. We decided that it definitely should be taught in school as well so that there is a little false information as possible.

Answer 10

It would be great if all parents taught their kids everything they needed to know about sex

BUT...

this is just not going to happen...parents are uneducated, conservative, naive, etc...see the play "spring awakening" and you'll see the devastating consequences of relying on the parents to teach their kids about sex...

eventually they'll find out...the question is, will it be too late??