One of the most controversial topic of today is Sex Education. Parents tend to opt out their children in Sex Education class because they fear that it will have a negative effect on their children. That it will encourage their children to be sexually active. Study shows that early pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) is on the rise, and part of the cause for this is Sexual education. They must learn the use of condoms and contraceptives to prevent it. Comprehensive education advocates abstinence as the primary defense against unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease (STDs), and HIV or AIDS, it also addresses the inevitability that some adolescents have or will engage in sexual behavior. Providing information about contraception and how to have “safer” sex is an integral part of comprehensive sex education.

          The need to reduce the risk of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease for those who decide to have sexual relations requires less divisiveness. Parents can still instruct them children as they see fit, but parents and their elected representatives should entrust school boards with the power to supplement that instruction with informed, health-based programs and services. Students/adolescents must not feel ashamed talking about it with their parents. They are at an age where curiosity is at its best and they should have knowledge to deal with it that to be sorry later. They should express their questions without the fear of getting ridiculed. And they must learn that sex is a part of our human lives.

Reference:

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/educators/implementing-sex-education

By: Rachelle Ann A. Enriquez