Renewed Commitment & Mandate for Sex Education?

TV shows like —15 & Pregnant??, —Teen Moms", & —16 and Pregnant?? immediately came to mind when I read this article. I??ve only seen a couple of them a few min at a time because my channel was already on it for previous shows while I was multi-tasking, & I'm just not a big fan of reality TV shows so I end up changing the channel after the first 5 - 10 min. But the titles of the shows alone are enough for me! Over the past 20+ yrs, I honestly feel like the way we've learned about —sex ed?? went from —discussing it openly in a classroom?? to —learning through experimentation in the bedroom??, hence these kinds of TV shows, which I think is unfortunate. Abstinence until marriage is definitely the most common sense answer, however, that is not the reality of the mindset of the average teenager/young adult with hormones & testosterone flying thru rooftops in a current time when the general attitude is —I want it now?? regardless of what it is??_.sex included! The bigger elephant in the room besides —teen pregnancy?? is the unprecedented rise in STD??s. —Safety?? should always be a main priority when it comes to —sex ed??. I definitely think this is a 2-prong approach: parents 1st to enforce and teachers/educators 2nd to reinforce proper sex education. IMO it should??ve never been taken out of schools in the 1st place and should still be mandatory.

As one commentator noted & I agreed to a large extent??_

—I'm going to be one of those few. Sex Education is education. All children have the right to a FULL education, not some little edited version that a parent thinks "appropriate". Heck, even homeschooled kids are required to have their parents show that they've covered a basic education.

Parents should not be allowed to "opt out" their child from comprehensive sex education, any more than they should be allowed to opt out of Algebra (even if Algebra is the Devil's Work). The rights here are the child's, not the parents. A child's right to a full education trumps any "right" of a parent to control their kid's knowledge.

Sorry, but comprehensive, responsible, medically-sound Sex Ed should absolutely be required, non-optional, & run by the schools, without parental control whatsoever.

Parents can teach their kids what they do with that education & information, but the education is the child's right, and parents should no more be able to deny them that they should be allowed to commit child abuse."

I think a few episodes of maury may set most teens straight.. that and commentary by the parent "see that? Thats gunna be you if you dont wrap up your shit and im gunna lmao at you and tell you I told you so!"
on the aspect of stds
a simple google image search will scare anybody straight.
with all that being said education is only half the fight when you have both tv and radio glorifying unprotected sex and making babies like your tryna get into guiness... 😢

You do realize that teen pregnancies are down a whole hell of a lot as opposed to 30-40 years ago, right?

^note- I am not arguing against sex ed. I agree that it is a necessity with the alarming rates of growing ignorance in this country.

Sorry, the number was 20 years ago. I was thinking about an article that I read the other day where they discussed pregnancy trends back in the 50s and 60s.

This was the graph that came to mind when I read your OP.