Abstinence only eduction=ignorance education?
Question:
What do you think? Is it safe to withhold information from teens and just tell them to wait? Or we should fully prepare them as responsible young adults?
Answers:
in new jersey, we get sexual education junior year (grade 11)
by that time, so many people have had sex.
teaching kids to "say no and abstain from sex" would be completely useless to some kids. instead, it would be better if the instructors talked about ways to go about responsibly. contraceptives, their side effects, what birth control really does, hiv/aids testing, all of this is really important, because first of all, kids are going to have sex. few people in todays world are virgins when they get married. and secondly, one day even after they are married, they may need to know about safe sex because their spouse has a std, or they do not want kids or whatever reason. there is no such thing as 100 percent safe sex, and abstinence is the only way to prevent ANYTHING from happening, but in the case that a young adult believes they are old enough to have sex, they should at least know how to stay as protected as possible
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