I believe that Abstinence plus should be taught in Public Schools. The reason I think this is because now a days it is common for teens to have sex before marriage and instead of just saying, "Don't have sex before marriage," how about saying, "It is better to wait, but if you can't then this is what you can do to protect yourself and these are the consequences for having sex before marriage and not being safe." I think that fully explaining what can happen if you have unprotected sex and going into to detail about STD's and pregnancies would definitely help and may even slow down sexual activity in teens or at least decrease pregnancies and the transfer of STD's. If this information was given then maybe the 3% increase in 2006 of pregnant teens could have been avoided. I also think that if they make more contraceptives available then this would help stop the transfer of STD's. Now some parents might not like this idea and that is probably why now Abstinence only education is taught, but this is a new day and a new time and if we don't change something it is only going to get worse. 2009 was the year that changes started so maybe we can continue down this path in a positive way.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-26-1Ateenpregnancy26_ST_N.htm
Shenita Jolivette
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