Can you believe it??

Question

I have found like a thousand questions from teenagers asking the most stupid and incredible questions about Sex and pregnancy. How can it be that teenagers are not well informed about the consequences of having unprotected sex. Is it the parents fault. Or do you believe schools need to have a professional ready to answer all their questions??

Answer 1

Personally I say both AND the kids too.

Parents SHOULD make sure kids are aware of he facts they need to know, but how many parents really expect their kids to be sexually active at 13 or 14 ?

Schools NEED to change sex education. In norway, MUCH of it is focussed on what you can catch and what it does to you, ask well as the pregnancy risks, of unprotected sex, and it seems to work, very FEW teenage moms here.

Most of all kids need to develop some sense of self awareness. However now EVERYTHING can be blamed on someone else.

One case in UK, a kids parents sued local council because the 6 foot fence, and "NO SWIMMING" signs did not stop their 15 yr old son diving into the pond, cracking his skull and ending in a weheelchair . . . so they sued, and WON damages as the council should have made the area "more secure" ??????????

Answer 2

I think that alot of parents are too busy to parent their kids anymore. They get married, get busy careers. She pops out a couple kids, and sends them to the daycare to raise while she goes back to work. The kid is raised by strangers (who he'll know better than his parents) and then its off to school. Parents only have them a few hours a night and weekends, vacation if they choose to. Lines of communication are never opened, so when its time for the sex talk, they either don't do it or the kid is too embarassed to ask more questions.

Yeah, I know this isn't everyone, but parents are so busy today. Overtime, long commutes, prices on everything are going through the roof. If they don't slow down and enjoy their kids, the kids won't feel comfortable asking them sex questions. It also doesn't help that as much pre marital sex as there is in the USA, adults are still total prudes when it comes to telling their kids the facts. I don't think my parents ever gave me that talk! What I know, I learned in school.

Answer 3

If schools had a professional other than nurses and counselors (which are prepared to answer all those questions), would kids go to them?
Adolescents learn most of their sex information from the media and from their peers, as Yahoo users, we have become their peers.
Maybe it shouldn't be that way, but I believe that they have more resources, they don't use them though. I think probably a way to better the situation is for parents to take a bigger role in their children's sex education, but I can't blame schools.

Answer 4

I basically think that it is the media (tv , internet) that is encouraging the teens to have sex. I didn't know anything about sex till i came to yahoo answers and i am just 13 years old. But i am well informed about the disasters in which i may end up having sex. I'm brought up in a family that is strict in these issues. I'm not even allowed to talk to a guy on the cell-phone. This seems harsh to people, but parents being strict to their children in these issues is really useful. I'm not telling the parents to spank their kids if they don't do chores but please be strict in this matter.

Cheers!!

Answer 5

Well, schools have Gym teachers and Nurses who talk about the risks of teen pregnancy. However, they don't have REAL teens who have gone through the experience and they should. They should have real teen girls who got pregnant at a young age and have them speak to the students about sex and pregnancy. Also, some kids just don't take it seriously and think that 'it will NEVER happen to them'.

KML♥

Answer 6

PARENTS... PARENTS... PARENTS!
Parents need to be just that... PARENTS!
They need to talk to their kids about sex and all the dangers that they face when they have sex at too young an age. Parents need to let their kids know that sex is for marriage only and that they need to talk to their kids and not expect the school system to be parents and teach them. Kids have so many questions that need to be answered.
Parents need to step up to the plate.

Answer 7

hmmm...
i think teens should educated themselves if they have questions or concerns about sex, because its funny how we may turn to a friend or the he said she said things and get misinformed.

You cant just count on schools, because some only teach abstinent only. and some parents steer away from the subject, especially if their young child comes up to them with a question regarding to sex.

Answer 8

hmmmmmm....welll u need to look at whose lying on here and whos telling the truth.....b/c if u look back at my question u can read that i was serious and still am....im a pregnant teenager....14 at that....and i have made mistakes and my parents have made bigger ones....ive had a hard life so maybe thats the reason for me.....but sum teens just want the reputation of being promiscuous.....i really dont understand why they wuld like that title but i never wanted that title it just happened.....so maybe u shuld look at their questions first to see if they're lying or not but it's easy to tell.....and dont judge people if they need ur help they need ur help.....

Answer 9

I think the parents are at fault because the depend on the school to teach their children everything that they don't want to talk about. The school should have a professional at hand to answer these types of questions when they arise. But the parents can't push some of their responsibility of informing their kids about sex on the school. If parents don't want to talk about it with their kids, take them to the doctor or to Planned Parenthood.

Answer 10

Schools and parents should work TOGETHER to stop this until at the very MINIMUM AGE OF 17.