Sex Education in Usa

Rough Draft

Currently the United States has the highest rate of adolescent pregnancies in the world. Roughly 93 per every 1000 sexually active adolescent females in the U.S. become pregnant (Wikipedia). Teen pregnancies and STDs are growing epidemics that obviously aren’t being addressed properly, as the rates of both in teens are on a steady rise. Introducing Sex Education into public schools will reduce the risk of potentially negative outcomes from sexual activity such as unwanted or unplanned pregnancies as well as reducing the chance of spreading sexually transmitted diseases.

Unfortunately it isn’t just sex education that we need in our public school systems; it’s a full comprehensive sex education program that actually gets the job done. The two main types of sex education that are taught throughout America are comprehensive and abstinence-only programs. The abstinence-only programs, while considered sex education, are poor examples of such. They teach the basic negatives and