Under the new Obama Administration, America has been faced with two options: continue the current federal funding of abstinence only programs or expand to classes that teach safe sex.
Both seem wrong to me, though I don't know what would be better. Abstinence only has been shown not to work; teens claim they won't have sex but then hormones take over and they have received no knowledge about safe sex.
Practically speaking then, safe sex doesn't work. Philosophically, I can see the problems with the sort of sex ed we have at NT. Basically they are saying "don't do this, but if you do, be safe." Kind of a mixed message.
I think that we should get rid of the idea that kids shouldn't have sex in public school health classes. Bear with me, the idea of abstinence until marriage is a strictly religious idea, therefore it seems like, in accordance with church and state, we should teach safe sex in school and leave messages about saving sex for parents and religious leaders. I recognize that this is never going to pass in a predominately Christian society, so I pick the lesser of two evils, and say ditch the abstinence only programs.
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