SEX EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOL

Sex education is instruction on issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual activity, reproductive health, emotional relation, reproductive rights and responsibilities, abstinence and birth control. Common avenues for sex education are parents or caregivers, formal school programs and public health campaigns.

Why Do We Have To Teach Sex Education

Information
Growth and development Anatomy and physiology of human reproduction Family life, pregnancy and child birth Sexual orientation, sex response, masturbation, abortion and sexual abuse AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases

Attitudes, Values, And Insights

Young people should question, explore, and assess sexual attitudes and feelings to develop their own values, increase self-esteem They should develop insights concerning relationships with members of both genders, and understand obligations and responsibalilities to others.

Relationship And Interpersonal Skills

Interpersonal skills, including communication, decision making, peerrefusal skill and the ability to create satisfying relationships.

Young people should excerse responsibalty in sexsual relationship by understanding abstinence and way of resisting pressures to become prematurely involve in sexual intercourse, as well as by encouraging the use of contraception and others sexual health measures Sexsuality education should be a central component of programs designed to reduce the prevalence of sexsually related health problems including teen pregnancy, sexuallt transmitted diseases and sexsual abuse.

Responsibility

Having comprehensive sex education in schools makes dialogue between kids and their parents more likely.

Children are having sex at earlier ages. Reasons why we need comprehensiv e sex education in our schools

Studies have shown that when kids are given comprehensive sex education in school, the rates for teens getting pregnant or contracting std's goes down.

Kids are bombarded daily by the media with sexual topics and image on the television, the newspaper, or surf the internet to find sexual themed media and kids have easy access to it.

Rates for teens getting and transmitting std's are soaring.

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BACTERIAL

Genital Herpes Human Papillomavirus (HPV) or Genital Warts Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Vaginitis Chlamydia Gonorrhea Syphilis Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)