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Should we move away from abstinence only sex education?

Should we move away from abstinence only sex education?

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Your Star said:
And teenagers have a sex drive, you can't ignore it. And those teen pregnancies, and STI's are because of abstinence only sex education, which is still taught in alot of school districts. We need to turn to a more comprehensive sexual education, so that we can prepare our kids, to deal with their sexual desires, and how to best protect themselves when they choose to act on those desires.
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Provide proof of your statement
 
Yes. There are no options and that is not realistic for sexually developing people. BUT, they MUST be made aware fo the seriousness of pregnancy and that they are RESPONSIBLE for their actions.
 
Originally Posted by ptif219
WE are talking about minor children. We have to many teen pregnancies. We have teen sexting. We have date rape. But we should stop abstinence teaching

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We have too many...



Sorry, felt like a grammar Nazi for a second :)
 
Abstinence should be taught along with sex education. In fact, abstinence should be encouraged.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Yes. There are no options and that is not realistic for sexually developing people. BUT, they MUST be made aware fo the seriousness of pregnancy and that they are RESPONSIBLE for their actions.
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One can only hope that they are responsible enough to have an abortion.
 
ptif219 said:
Provide proof of your statement
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Because knowledge is power, and giving people the proper knowledge to base their decisions on is the best course of action in any situation. You got any proof that abstinence only sex education actually reduces teen pregnancies, and STI's? Or that denying people knowledge is actually helps people?

Can you even agree that teens do have a sex drive? Or are you just gonna ignore that fact?
 
Your Star said:
And teenagers have a sex drive, you can't ignore it. And those teen pregnancies, and STI's are because of abstinence only sex education, which is still taught in alot of school districts.
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Teen pregnancies and STDs occur when students are exposed to safe sex only education too, ya know.
 
Mellie said:
Teen pregnancies and STDs occur when students are exposed to safe sex only education too, ya know.
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Yes, both of those things are going to happen no matter what, but with proper education students are less likely to have those things happen to them.
 
Your Star said:
Yes, both of those things are going to happen no matter what, but with proper education students are less likely to have those things happen to them.
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Do you agree with me that students should be taught safe sex practices, but abstinence should be encouraged?
 
Mellie said:
Do you agree with me that students should be taught safe sex practices, but abstinence should be encouraged?
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I don't think anything should be encouraged, the students should be given all the information available, so they can make the best choice for themselves.
 
In my section of Florida: abstinence only sex ed + first cousins can marry = highest rates of teen pregnancy in the state.

Coinky-dink? I don't EVEN think so. Thank Heavens they're building a gay gated community nearby or it'd just get worser and worser 'round heah.

Regards from Rosie
 
RosieS said:
In my section of Florida: abstinence only sex ed + first cousins can marry = highest rates of teen pregnancy in the state.

Coinky-dink? I don't EVEN think so.
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I'd love to hear an explanation for how legalizing marriage between first cousins has caused high rates of teen pregnancy.
 
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RightinNYC said:
I'd love to hear an explanation for how legalizing marriage between first cousins has caused high rates teen pregnancy.
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Yew're not from around heah, are yew? Obviously not or you'd know all about shot-gun weddings. Those weddings aren't between strangers. There's a dearth of traveling salesman sleeping with the farmer's daughters these days. Teenage boys will copulate with available females...most of them blood relatives.

My county, in particular, has the most 55+ only communities in the state, too. It isn't the grey haired elders that are overcrowding the elementary school classrooms with children here, obviously.

Regards from Rosie
 
Your Star said:
Because knowledge is power, and giving people the proper knowledge to base their decisions on is the best course of action in any situation. You got any proof that abstinence only sex education actually reduces teen pregnancies, and STI's? Or that denying people knowledge is actually helps people?

Can you even agree that teens do have a sex drive? Or are you just gonna ignore that fact?
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Show proof abstinence only caused all teen pregnancies and all STD's
 
ptif219 said:
Show proof abstinence only caused all teen pregnancies and all STD's
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Whoever said "abstinence only caused all teen pregnancies and all STD's"?
 
ptif219 said:
Show proof abstinence only caused all teen pregnancies and all STD's
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Show proof abstinence only education stops those things?

Improper use of birth control causes those things, and abstinence only education doesn't teach students how to use birth control, or give them a proper education about sex. Keeping students in the dark isn't the way to go.
 
RosieS said:
Yew're not from around heah, are yew? Obviously not or you'd know all about shot-gun weddings. Those weddings aren't between strangers. There's a dearth of traveling salesman sleeping with the farmer's daughters these days. Teenage boys will copulate with available females...most of them blood relatives.

My county, in particular, has the most 55+ only communities in the state, too. It isn't the grey haired elders that are overcrowding the elementary school classrooms with children here, obviously.
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Do you have anything to back up your claim that allowing first-cousin marriages in your area has led to an explosion of teen pregnancy?

Moreover, I don't really think "teen pregnancy" is in and of itself the problem, I think it's "unmarried teen pregnancy" that's really the issue. A 19 year old married couple that decides to have a kid is far less of a "problem" for society than a 21 year old girl who gets knocked up by a random guy.
 
My area never has had an abolition of first cousin marriage, nor has it ever had anything but abstinence-only sex ed. But my area beats Miami-Dade County in percentage of teen pregnancies. It's illogical to think this mid-Florida area would beat MIAMI unless the sex ed. and first cousin marriages were to blame.

You'd have to make this area not deeply ruby-red politically and culturally in order to disprove my reasoning for high teen pregnancy here.

Regards from Rosie
 
RosieS said:
My area never has had an abolition of first cousin marriage, nor has it ever had anything but abstinence-only sex ed. But my area beats Miami-Dade County in percentage of teen pregnancies. It's illogical to think this mid-Florida area would beat MIAMI unless the sex ed. and first cousin marriages were to blame.
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That's really not how logic works. You could also say that your area probably listens to more country music per capita than Miami. That doesn't mean that country music causes teen pregnancy.
 
Ah ha. You haven't lived in Miami, either. A sexually repressed place it ain't.

Perhaps if you see it for yourself, you'd understand.

It makes no sense for a place full of elderly like we have here to have such a high teen birthrate unless sex ed and the marriage law enables it.

Regards from Rosie
 
Yes because some of you may of noticed sex is enjoyable.The answer to obesity is not to stop people eating altogether even though that would work.We could get rid of all deaths by guns if everyone agreed to never use a gun.If jerry didnt have any legs tom could get him.Its just not realistic
 
RosieS said:
Ah ha. You haven't lived in Miami, either. A sexually repressed place it ain't.

Perhaps if you see it for yourself, you'd understand.

It makes no sense for a place full of elderly like we have here to have such a high teen birthrate unless sex ed and the marriage law enables it.
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Your Star said:
Simple question, yes or no, and explain your answer.

Personally I think we should, it doesn't provide our kids with a proper sex education, and doesn't prepare them for the real world. I also think that sex education should include information on LGBT issues, and I think that our schools should offer condoms to our students with no questions asked.
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Yes we should educate our children on all birth control while not ignoring the most obvious, abstinence. LGBT issues should be left out as it's not the school systems right or responsibility to supersede the values of the parents and what they wish to impart on their children. The school should provide condoms only with the permission and knowledge of the parents.
 
mac said:
Yes we should educate our children on all birth control while not ignoring the most obvious, abstinence. LGBT issues should be left out as it's not the school systems right or responsibility to supersede the values of the parents and what they wish to impart on their children. The school should provide condoms only with the permission and knowledge of the parents.
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It's not superseding the values of the parents, it's giving LGBT students a proper sex education. And I do think it should be known that the school gives out condoms, but it shouldn't be something a student would have to have written consent to receive the condoms.
 
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