Sex Education in Public Schools

What should schools teach our children?

Statistics

• 10 million teenagers get STDs each year.

• 800,000 teenage women get pregnant.

• 43 million abortions since 1973.

• 149 abortions per hour.

What is sex education?

• Process of obtaining information.

• Process of forming attitudes and beliefs about sex.

• Process to develop the ability to make decisions.

Sex Education Programs

• Safe Sex: Use of contraceptives.

• Abstinence: Delay sexual activity.

For Abstinence-Only

• Safe sex encourages teens to have sex.

• Sex should be linked to marriage.

• Sex should be linked to love.

• Sex at early have harmful consequences.

School District Sex Education by Region

North-East South Midwest West

Abstinence only 20% 58% 37% 28%

Abstinence / Contraceptives Effective 78% 40% 50% 47%

Abstinence as one option 12% 2% 13% 19%

Against Abstinence-Only

• Will only leave teens uneducated and unprotected.

• Will increase the rate of pregnancies and STDs.

• No education for sexually active teenagers.

What should be taught in schools?

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Pregnancy

Abortion

STDs

Pill After

Contraceptives

Abstinence

HIV/AIDS

Homosexuality

CONCLUSION

• Parents should be responsible.

• Schools are backups of parents.

• Sex education for parents.

• Abstinence and safe sex together.

• Parents, teachers, and students involved in government decisions.

Who should be responsible in teaching sex?

78%

22%

0% Parents

Schools

Both

Birth rates for women aged 15-19 years.

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