What do you think about abstinence-only teaching in school?

Question

This new 'abstinence-only' program doesn't teach our teens these days any of the real facts. its all...dont have sex! condoms dont always work. sex is a sin until your married stuff. what about the kids out there who are having sex? anyways...tell me your opinion, should they do full sex-ed or keep up with this abstinence stuff?

Answer 1

I know in our school district its a rule that they cant teach about the alt. methods if you have sex. Which i think is totaly bs since kids are gonna do it any way mays well tell them what to use so they dont get into to trouble

Answer 2

Whatever happened to parents. Whatever happened to the father or mother taking the kid aside and talking about the birds and the bees. I don't think the school has any business teaching children anything at all about sex. I don't think the school should be teaching something that should come from the home.

Teaching children abstinence won't work. Teaching them about condoms and STD's won't work. All of these things just make them more curious. However if the 14 year old girl is going to go out and boink some 15 year old boy because she has no moral values then she should at least know how to protect herself.

Answer 3

I think they should do full sex-ed but keep up with this abstinence stuff at the same time.
I feel that teaching your child to not have sex until you are married is a rather out dated practice and enforces religion on them.But, they should also stress that sex is a HUGE no no until you are at least 18.
Children should be educated on the topic of sex.It is a very important part of life..and knowledge of it is just as important as any other lesson in preparation of adulthood.
But, again, I do feel that sex b4 the age of 18 she be much more strongly enforced...maybe made out to be almost crime like.lol
Besides...kids are going to do what they want behind adults backs...you might as well properly educate them on the topic and enforce safe sex as much as possible.You wouldn't want a bunch of idiotic teens running around having sex with less knowledge than they already have.This isn't the 50s...sex is everywhere an on every TV channel...............you can't hide it like they did back then.And if all they saw and heard were sex symbols,sexual jokes and soft porn w/o any other source of education on the topic................things would be a helluva lot worse than they already are.
Don't ya think?
Personaly, I do feel that it really isn't the school's job to fully educate children on sex...It is more of the parent's job.but, n order for it to work......these things need to be taught and talked about in both the home and school...children need to hear that sex b4 the age 18 in bad.......everywhere they go.Parents and schools should always work together on such things.

Answer 4

omg well at my school they teach about sex and everything in health. they say that it is better be abstinence but not everyone will so they tell us the consequences. they should because if you tell a teenager about sex but not tell them about all the bad consequence what reason would the kids have for not having sex. they would just do it because the teacher is not telling them about STDs or pregnancies or anything on that matter it is something going on in high schools weather the adults want to acknowledge it or not and students have a right to learn about the good or bad but it is still there choice in the end so teach both sides

Answer 5

When I was in school I only paid attention half of the time, I took into consideration most of the stuff that was said, but in the long run I think it did some good. The STDs chapter kind of scared me a little though...lol, I think it did everyone! But absinance only isn't such a good idea, because kids are going to try new things sometime, and they need to know how to make smart choices if they are going to do something new, like using a condom.

Answer 6

schools should definetly teach safe sex if not there would be sooo many more STD cases and pregnancies. abstinence is a great thing to teach but all the students aren't going to stay abstinence

Answer 7

since we aren't born knowing anything, whose responsibility is it to teach future generations...if kids don't know about sex by the time they get to sex ed in school, then somebody is not doing their job(parents)...people fu**, that's what we do...we procreate...that's how we survive...some things need to be tackled head on...kids from 13 and up need to be taught what their parts are for, and what they are desiring to do with them...abstinence is a part of sex education, but it is not the only thing that should be taught...

Answer 8

I think we all should know by now that by trying to prevent teens from having sex just doesn't work. When we are teens we go through a transformation from a being a child to becoming a young adult and our hormones are raging. So, of course teens are going to have the curiosity to explore these areas. I don't think sex should be encouraged, but it is important to educate them about it. I think we should stress the importance of being safe.

Answer 9

I think abstinence-only is totally pointless. A lot of them are going to have sex anyway and they need to know about birth control and STDs.

Answer 10

It's ridiculous because not every child's home life is so good. If they don't know how STDs/HIV and etc are spread we're going to see more cases of it. I went to catholic school and was taught sex ed by a nun. That kept me abstinent until my 18th bday. *shivers*