Sex Education In Schools

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“Indiana SB 454 requires accredited schools that provide instruction on human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases to provide comprehensive sexual health education that is age appropriate, medically accurate and culturally sensitive. Requires schools to notify parents and allow parents to review the curriculum. Also allows parents to opt out,” 2013 Sex Education Legislation (NCSL, 2013). As sex education has been around for many years, it is changing year to year because of what is being taught in the curriculums. Teenage sex education is an important topic of debate in schools because sex and its health related issues are widespread in the lives of so many adolescents. Some engage in sex without knowing the risks that come along with because students are exposed to sexual encounters shown in movies, TV shows, and the internet. This paper will examine the purpose, history, advantages and disadvantages of sex education, as well as how education systems can improve the sex education curriculum.
Main Purpose of Sex Education
The sex education curriculum is included in school to aid adolescents in gaining knowledge about their body’s human reproductive system, preventing them from sexually transmitted diseases/infections and informing them about contraceptives to avoid teenage or unwanted pregnancies. Sex education in the United States is taught in two main forms: comprehensive and abstinence-only. Comprehensive sex education covers abstinence as a positive choice, but also teaches the benefits of contraception and the avoidance of sexually transmitted diseases. Abstinence-only sex education emphasizes abstinence from sex prior to marriage and rejects methods such as contraception. Prochoiceamerica.org stated that most...

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...s to teach them about sex. There are also some parents who want to teach their children themselves and not want the school to teach them because they feel that it is their job as a parent to provide them with the information so that there is not any confusion or because of religious beliefs.

Works Cited

NARAL Pro-Choice America. (2013). Sex Education. Retrieved from http://www.prochoicea merica.org/what-is-choice/sex-education/
National Conference of State Legislatures. (2013, March 18). State Policies on Sec Education in Schools. Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/state-policies-on-sex-education-in-schools.aspx
Reiss, P. M. (2005, September 27). A Brief History of Sex Education - OpenLearn - Open University. Retrieved from The Open University: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/health/health-studies/brief-history-sex-education

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