Sex Education

Sex education is a topic that has become more popular among these generations only because there are so many teenage pregnancies in the world. When growing up, I never had a sex education class, but in my health class, one of the topics was about sex. At the beginning of this groups presentation, they showed a video about this girl who wants to become older faster, and be just like her older sister. It shows how she tries on her sister's make up, and then a couple weeks later gets her first period. Her period meaning she has now become an adult woman. After the first period starts, the next thing mothers are concerned about is when their daughter, or son, starts to have sex. I think it is probably less concerning about the sons, unless he gets a daughter pregnant, but even so, in the long run, the man doesn't necessarily have to take care of the child, as bad as that sounds. The daughter if she gets pregnant has 9 month ahead of her, and then she has the child, so it seems like it's a greater worry for mothers of daughters who start to have sex. Abstinence is one of the teachings of sex education, and parents, even the government are realizing that abstinence isn't working as effectively as they want it to. Teenage girls are becoming pregnant more often, because they aren't told how to be safe, if they try it, which most teens have, or anything else. Because of teens becoming pregnant more and more, there are TV shows about it, Teen Mom, 16 and Pregnant. Society is realizing what is happening, they are starting to address it, and it is more accepted than it would have been years ago. The government is now giving more money to schools to help those schools have more sex education classes for their students. It seems that having these classes in school, will help the students. Many students are too scared to talk about sex with the parents, so then if there is nothing offered in school, that student is on their own in figuring out what to do. Some of the students in our class even said that they never had "the talk" with their parents or if they did, it was really short, and uncomfortable. So then, if daughters are getting pregnant should we partly blame the parents? More schools aren't teaching abstinence, because they know that most teenagers will be having sex, so rather than tell the students that sex is bad, or they should wait until they are older, or married to have it, the students should be taught how to have safe sex. I think the government has now realized this so that is why they are giving schools more money to try and prevent further amount of teen pregnancies.