Here are some of the findings:
- 59 percent of educated female teenagers were less likely to have sex before attaining the age of 15 years.
- Male teens who received sex education in school were 71 per cent less likely to have sexual intercourse before the age of 15.
- Showed overall sexual contact trends are also moving in the right direction with 53% of boys and 58% of girls 15-17 reporting that they have never had any kind of sexual relations with any partner.
- Sex education appeared to have no effect on whether female teens used birth control but males who attended sex education classes were 2.77 times more likely to rely upon birth control the first time they had intercourse.
Asking our community of parents of teens: How do you feel about sex education in schools? Are public schools doing too much or not enough? Please share your opinions, advice and experiences in the comments area.
I took sex education in school. I think teens should learn about it. However, I think it should come from the parents first. If families have morals at home, then teens will try to live by them as they grow older. It wasn’t until I applied morals in my life, that I stopped fornicating when I was around 19 years of age.
Due that teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic could be described only by superlatives, I must say that schools are not doing what’s necessary to reduce the high level of teenage pregnancy.
I have had two daughters go through public school. They have graduated from Mississippi’s public schools. Need I say more! Just look at the statistics and you will see where our state ranks in teen pregnancies in the country. The sex education provided in our schools is a joke and I mean this literally. It fails, miserably, to get the kids attention and is the source of endless pokes and jabs. Considering the level on which most teens communicate now, the programs cannot be condencding. I am not an expert educator, but I am an expert mother. I believe community, church, parents, schools, state and federal governments need to come together to address this issue. Somewhere in one of these many minds there must be an answer.
I wonder how much of today’s teen’s decision to not have sex has to do with in-school sex education. I have two teens, a boy and a girl, and both seemed sorely underwhelmed when asked about the class. I would guess that parents and home environements probably have just as much influence (if not more) than any public sector offering. Consider such factors as broken homes (where Mom and Dad are enemies); solid, loving homes where the parents are a supportive team; the relative matruity with which parents and other adults handle the subject of sex (as opposed to the attitudes displayed throughout the previous century). I think teens today have much more material to work with than just what the schools are providing.
Sex Education has no effect on whether girls use birth control. What do you mean by this? What kind of sex education? Not all sex education is comprehensive. 26 states require that abstinence be stressed and 0 states require that forms of birth control be stressed.
Not having a teen I wouldn’t know, but, are teens being taught in schools about sexual techniques that do not require a condom? Mutual Masturbation is a technique whereby one or both teens (male/female) arouse the genitals of the other to orgasm without penial/vaginal penetration and the exchange of body fluids associated with that (i.e. sexual intercourse). They need to be taught to not put their hands to their mouths or do this with open or healing cuts, but other than that it is a very satisfying technique that allows sex without disease transmission nor threat of pregnancy. Celibate Monks may have practiced this technique. Search for Mutual Masterbation online and you will liekly run across such a painting (wikipedia perhaps).