Sex Education: Does It Really Work?
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"Forty percent of today's fourteen year old girls will become pregnant
by the time they are nineteen" (qtd. in "The Effects" 632). This statistic may
indicate that the sex education programs in the United States are not
controlling the effects of sex by teens. "The United States has the highes ....
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.... developing
abstinence only curricula" (Shapiro 56). By looking at the problems sex
education tries to solve, we can improve the sex education programs by putting
the problems in order of importance. This will prove that teens having sex at a
younger age is the reason for the failure of sex education in this country. To
counteract this problem abstinence should be taught to children under the age of
16. Then when the children reach the age of 16 they need to be taught AIDS and
condom edu ....
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