Comprehensive Sex Education is Needed

http://www.wholefamily.com/aboutteensnow/sexuality/consequences/prg_liz.html Teen pregnancy is something that needs to be dealt with. It is becoming a problem and every year rates of teen pregnancy do not decline. The United States has higher pregnancy and STI rates than most foreign countries, large or small. The only way to make this change is to take action and do something in our schooling systems and at home. Schools need to be more open to teaching comprehensive sex education and they also need to encourage parents to teach their teens more about being safe if they choose to have sex. Of course abstinence is the only one hundred percents full proof way to prevent pregnancy but as the statistics show that is not what teens are about. They want to have sex and they are going to do it whether abstinence is promoted or not. So in order to make a difference sex education classes need to teach teens not only the basics of reproduction but how to put a condom on, use birth control, and communicate with their partners properly in order to ensure that they have safe sex. Parents need to talk to their teens about sex because a big problem is that they avoiding talking to their teens about the subject of sex because they would rather believe they are not doing it. The reality is that it is happening so they need to step up and talk to their teens as soon as possible.
STI rates are another problem. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23574940 In short the only thing to do is talk to teens and to promote safe sex and to teach teens how to protect themselves from STI’s in their sex education classes and in the home. Parents and schools need to talk to teens and show them that not having sex is an option but if they choose to have sex then they should know how to do it safely. Safe sex needs to be promoted and if we continue to ignore the realities, that teens are having sex, then STI and pregnancy rates will continue to rise and never stop.