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Sex Education And Children

The Teaching of Sex Education and Children
With the sexual revolution and the arrival of the newer diseases, parents and educators are at ever-increasing odds to what is the best way to educate children about sex. Sex education in the school systems would help prevent the spreading of diseases and pregnancies, the issue is the decision between parents and educators on what is the best way. America’s children are getting different messages which are confusing them on what they should do, “Just Do It”, “Just Say No” and “Just Wear a Condom”. Which are we saying? Without proper guidance and choices our children will make the choices of the moment instead of the future. Children need to know birth control, safer sex and abstinence are choices. Children today require the teachings of sex education to prevent the spread of sexual diseases and pregnancy, because of the opposing morals, psychological, and social dilemmas parents and teachers need to decide the best way.
Opposing Morals Confuse the Children
The moral issues that were once acceptable are now at the mercy to the sexual revolution and the medical ramifications. “Adults have one foot in the Victorian era while kids are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic” complains pediatrician Karen Hein, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City (May 1993). She has seen her share of teens infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases pass through the hospital. “There’s something wrong,” sex educator Sol Gordon said, “with a country that says, sex is dirty, save it for someone you love” (May 1993). Children need to know birth control, safer sex and abstinence are choices. One message all the programs are trying to convey is for the children to learn what sex education is needed, and choose to wait. The moral issues of sex education and, we have the highest record of young people having sex in this country. There is one point everyone agrees in this debate that is going on is sex educations is...