Make the Right Choice

More than three quarters of parents and teachers say that they want their students to be taught a wide range of issues in sex education courses, including: sexual orientation, abortion, contraceptives, and the emotional consequences of sex (Parents 20)(Abstinence-Only 7). The United States government, however is funding mostly abstinence based sex education, with “their ‘exclusive purpose’ to be teaching the ‘social, psychological, and health gains’ to be realized from abstinence”(Should 1). The federal government is spending $50 …

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