Sex Education: Does it Really Work?


Roy Peters

"Forty percent of today's fourteen year old girls will become pregnant
by the time they are nineteen" (qtd. in "The Effects" 632). This statistic may
indicate that the sex education programs in the United States are not
controlling the effects of sex by teens. "The United States has the highest
teen pregnancy rate of developed countries" ("The Effects" 632). I believe
that the people of this nation need to look at the current sex education
programs and see if they are properly addressing the problems that sex education
was intended to stop. The three major reasons why sex education is taught in
our schools are: 1) to discourage teens from having sex at younger and younger
ages; 2) to stop the spread of AIDS and other STDs; and 3) to prevent teenage
pregnancy. I believe that the sex education programs being used today are not
effective at controlling these three problems. Today's sex education programs
are abstinence based.......

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