Comprehensive Sex Education

There is one issue in the USA that irritates me more than the economy or stupidity: the lack of good sex education available in schools.  I even wrote an argumentative essay about sex education in USA schools, that will be posted up here soon. Everywhere I find schools that the parents are refusing to let the teens get sex education, and also will not give the talk to their own teenagers(telling teens that they should never have sex does not count).  Teenagers should be given information, and given the ability to make decisions with the information they get, how else will they learn?  There are too many STDs out there for abstinence-only ideas to be depended on (when everyone knows that teenagers like to rebel).

Here's some more information on this from an essay excerpt:

As for the HIV costs, many people have no idea that it can cost up to 36.4 billion dollars per lifetime, including the treatment required and the efficiency costs through being unable to work at times.  Including Antiretroviral therapy (ART), the costs can increase hugely, considering the amount of money spent on normal treatment per year is $114,938.00 approximately, while those using ART can have costs of $230,044.00 per year (“36.4 Billion a Year”).  It is a known quote that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure;” however it is worth much more when there is no cure for HIV, although it may be prevented through the use of contraception.  This can make one wonder why another would argue for abstinence-only teachings when these are the numbers, especially when the costs of children per year are weighed in.

Works Cited

"Birth Control Pills." Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, 2013. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. 

"Cost of Raising a Child Calculator." Cost of Raising a Child Calculator. N.p., n.d. Web. 18

            Mar. 2013. 

 “Facts on American Teens’ Sexual and Reproductive Health.” Guttmacher Institute 2013. Web.

            13 Mar. 2013. 

Feiju, Ammie and Sue Alford. “Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the US.” Adolescent

            Sexual Health in Europe and the US. N.p., 2000. Web. 13 Mar. 2013. 

Llewellyn, Cheryl. "Abstinence Education." Sex and Society. Marshall Cavendish Digital, 2013.

            Web. 18 March 2013. 

Palmer, Kimberly. “The Real Cost of Birth Control.”  US News RSS. N.p., 5 Mar. 2012. Web.

13 Mar.2013.

"$36.4 billion a year: Cost of HIV/AIDS highlights racial and ethnic disparities." Medical News

            Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 26 Sep. 2006. Web.