Should Our Teens Be Taught Sex Education at School?

Like it or not, your teens are thinking about sex... that is if they are not already doing it. Teens these days are growing up a lot faster than teens of past generations. I can even state this from personal experience, because I am a last generation teen, at the ripe old age of 24. When I was a teen sex was important, but most people in school were not yet doing it and if they were, usually it was towards the end of school or just after. These days teens are experimenting earlier and rushing to grow up, so it is better to have them prepared. If they want to be adults so soon, lets give them an adult education.

Sex education is important regardless of if they are sexually active in their teens or not. Eventually most of them will be doing it, so it is only right that they are prepared for the decisions that face them. If they do not get the sex education in school, where are they going to get it? Most would be far too embarrassed to ask beyond school age, because it would only be assumed that they should already know all about it.

Unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases should be a thing of the past. Our teens should be educated enough on safe sex practices now that they should rarely ever experience these issues. If we do not educate them, they will make the wrong decision and end up facing a future that they did not account for.

I fully support sex education in schools and it is unfortunate that the sex education provided when I was in school was no where near as thorough as it should have been. Sure the teens will moan and groan at the thought of such an embarrassing topic to cover, but deep down they will be very grateful to have many of the questions they have answered without having to ask