sex education in the United States?
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There are no federal policies on what must be taught in schools, because that is left to the states. Nonetheless, the feds do encourage the teaching of abstinance. The sites below provide some more information.
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For. If you are able to do it then you should learn about it. And sadly, even wayy back when I was in school, there were always some that did it. I had sex education in the sixth grade.It didn't hurt me at all.
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Hopefully, the following set of links, combined, can give you a place to start with your course setup.  Also, check with the local public schools for the curriculum they use for middle schoolers' first introduction to the topic.\n\nhttp://www.etr.org/recapp/research/journal200110.htm\nhttp://www.nichcy.org/resources/sexualityeducation.asp\nhttp://ericec.org/faq/sex-ed.html\nhttp://www.sexsupport.org/SexEd.html (this one is a list of academic articles, professionally developed program summaries, etc.... browse and then do a search for the ones you think will help you)\nhttp://www.usaid.gov/about/disability/hiv_training.html\nhttp://www.arcminnesota.com/res-sexuality.htm\n\n\nHope these help!
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It's always a mistake to choose your approach based on moral ideals rather than outcome.\n\nBush probably doesn't want to hear it, but the Dutch have the lowest teen pregnancy rate in Europe (much lower than the US) and also the highest rate of condom use amongst young people.\n\nTheir tactic of teaching not only contraction, but also focusing on the emotional and romantic side of relationships has meant that not only do teenagers wait longer to have sex (on average 2 years later than in the US), but when they do, they use protection.\n\nWhat's the problem with that system?  Because of Dutch sex education, their teenagers are getting pregnant less, getting disease less, using contraception more AND having sex later.\n\nWhy choose absitinence only education when there is good evidence that it doesn't work over a system that DOES work?
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Any decent teacher wouldn't be blabbing about the sexual habits of people to students.  Sex Education isn't about teaching kids how to have sex or who to have sex with.  So if it's a gay, professional teacher I wouldn't have a problem with it.  However if it's the type of gay person who talks to students about the things you mentioned, I would hope this person would be fired, regardless of what classes he/she teaches.  I would want a straight teacher fired for the same reasons.  Most of all I would hope that most parents are doing the responsible thing and making sure their kids are getting the right information about sex at home.
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This is pretty much sex education 101. Some of the juvenile questions asked on this section are just insane. Come on people, can we not think of more thought or debate raising questions than the repetative asking of how to make your partner orgasm? Come on people!
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Why is American society so obsessed with sex and sexuality?
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I'm not aware that children at age 6 are receiving any official/formal training in sex education.\n\nMy concern at this point is that the child is learning this from another student or worse yet, an adult who is not authorized to do this sort of teaching.\n\nI might want to sit down with the parents of this child in a comfortable non aggressive/threatening environment and find out what the child meant when he said this and where he gained this information.\n\nThis can range from the simple act of bringing the matter to teachers and administration at the school to the leveling of charges against an adult who had less than pleasant intentions with the child.\n\nGood luck with this.\n\nLove as always,\n\nSebastian
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Yes- parenting or at least some kind of child development or child psych... combined with a sex ed- at least the part about efectiveness of various kinds of birth control and info about STD's.... like "Abstinance is the only sure way to avoid all STD's, including pregnancy..." or "A 5-yr-old is egocentric. She thinks that her behavior and actions are the cause of everything else happening..." and so on...\n\nAnother answer mentioned homosexuals lack of need for this type of education- if they choose to adopt, aren't they still parents? Aren't they still responsible to love and teach those children?\n\nMany people are placed in a parental role, not always by choice. I don't think anyone can get through life without contact with children- their own offspring, nieces/nephews, grandchildren, the neighbor kids, babysitting, etc. Understanding how kids at different ages think is vital for these relationships.\n\nI am not a parent, but my church has asked that I care for and supervise the little ones while their parents are in their classes. These children are between 18 months and 3 yrs old. I am grateful for what I know about children. Because of my college human development classes, I know what to expect from these kids- behavior, attention span, etc.\n\nNo, the public school system is not very well equiped to, nor should they teach ethics, but they can teach statistics, trends, and the typical development of infants, children and teens.
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.\n\nGiven today's STDs I think that someone who fools around with the unknown is fulfilling an undeclared death wish.\n\n\nWhy "Sex" Remains a \nDirty Word in America\n\nBy James Donahue\n\nNothing occupies our minds, our actions, our personal neurosis and our social lives more than sex.\n\nSexual intercourse between a consenting man and woman is probably the most desirable, most pleasurable and most spiritual part of the human experience. And there lies the rub. In the United States, it remains a forbidden topic in many social circles. When it is discussed among the boys in the locker rooms, the comedians on late night cable television, and the ladies during their afternoon luncheons, the stories become bawdy and perverted.\n\nOur failure to be open and frank about sex has created a nation of sexually frustrated and mentally twisted people. I doubt if there is another country in the world that can match ours per capita for the number of rapes, sex murders, child assaults and wife beatings that occur daily. Our cities teem with shops that sell sex in one lewd form or another. The rate of teen-age pregnancies is too high and the spread of venereal disease is at such an epidemic level that even the prudes who prefer not to talk about sex are starting to promote the use of condoms. It seems that the only type of sexual act that gets public discussion is homosexuality, and that is because a portion of society believes it is wrong and wants to put a stop to it.\n\nAttempts to change this social perversion and bring light on this subject also are under assault. The culprit is always the church, which treats sex as something reserved only for married couples and only necessary for procreation. That humans find great pleasure in sex seems to have a lot to do with the "sin" factor linked to it. For this reason, the Roman Catholic Church has consistently prohibited the use of any form of birth control. Church leaders, who claim to abstain and remain celibate, apparently regard it as sinful to find any pleasure in the sexual act. This twisted way of thinking has been largely responsible for world overpopulation and if is allowed to continue, may lead to the ultimate extinction of the human race.\n\n(One would think the problem could be solved if, instead of circumcisions, we could give our boys [and girls?] operations to completely remove all sensual pleasure from sex. And so much the better if we could add a little pain to the sex act so that the continuation of the species would be accomplished through personal determination rather than a lustful accident.)\n\nThe church has battled sex education classes in the public schools from the day the concept first began. The church attacked a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Congress went too far in requiring cable television systems to fully scramble sexually-oriented television channels. We are constantly being fed propaganda about the evil Internet chat rooms where sex crazed madmen hit on young children with thoughts of evil deeds.\n\nThe argument is usually for the "protection of the children" from what is described as "hardcore depictions of sex" that can now get into any home with a television set or computer attached to the Internet. \n\nI have to wonder just what it is we are protecting our children from? Is sex, the natural reproduction process of the human race, such an ugly thing that we are ashamed to admit we practice it? Why shouldn't children be allowed to freely observe the open\nexpression of love between a man and woman so they have a healthy understanding of sexual differences and the magic process of producing children? Where and when did someone in our past decide that sex should be covered up and hidden in a dark and secluded place? \n\nAmericans are among the most sexually suppressed people in the world. Our insistence on hiding sex and making it some dirty th
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Hi there,\n\nThanks for your question. To answer your question with some questions...here we go:\n\n- How does culture effect our views of human sexuality?\n- How has our understanding of sexual orientation changed in the past century?\n- Should governments have any say into people's sexual lives?\n- Should chemical castration be enforced on convicted sexual abusers?\n- Why has female sexual development been relatively under-researched as compared to male sexual development?\n- What are the primary concerns of legalizing same sex marriage?\n- Should intersex and hermaphrodite infants undergo surgery to define their sexual genital expression?\n- How should marriage be defined?\n\nHope these questions help! Good luck!
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I wouldn't put it past them. When you are in the death business, you have to keep them coming back so you wouldn't want abstinence taught in sex ed.\n\nA 1996 study on Project Reality’s use of choosing the best curriculum, indicated a 54% decrease in sexual activity after teens were exposed to the abstinence curriculum.\n\nFrom 1971 they change sex ed in schools from abstinence to safe sex. The philosophy was it's OK to have sex with anybody you want as long as you wear a condom.\nWell, since they turned away from abstinence the number of girls who became pregnant while using contraceptives rose 266%. There was also a 107% increase in those who had abortions and a 93% increase to those who contracted STDs
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many. try this site: http://www.sexual-health-resource.org/std.htm
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too many kids in hig school are having sex becasue they see it and hear it every where.   no one teaches them about the responsibility or the dangers of having it.   a percentage is not going to help you decide who is having sex and who is not.  it is just a silly number some person sitting behind a desk got from surveying too few people.\n\nBut if you insist here is one statistic:-\nKids Having Sex \n\nCulture/Society Miscellaneous\nSource: National Liberty Journal\nPublished: March 2001 Author: NLJ Staff\nPosted on 03/10/2001 17:57:13 PST by Pistol \nIn February, True Love Waits, an innovative organization that promotes abstinence among teens, conducted a poll asking," What percentage of your high-school friends are haing sex?"\n\nThe answers were astounding. Only 13 % of the 6,287 respondents (as of February 16) responded that 30% of their friends were sexually involved. However, 30 % of students answered that 30 % of their friends were engaging in sex; and 38 % answered that 60 % of their friends were having sex. Additionally, 17 % said that 90 % of their friends were sexually active.\n\nThis poll illustrates the pressing need for groups like True Love Waits to get out their message.True Love Waits (www.truelovewaits.com) is currently conducting a campaign called "Seize The Net," [sic] in which they encourage young people to sign a pledge of purity. That pledge, already signed by more than one-million students, reads:\n\nBelieving that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future mate and my future children to be sexually abstinent from this day until the day I enter a biblical marriage relationship.\n\nNational Liberty Journal encourages all readers to to urge their children/grandchildren to visit the True Love Waits web page to learn how they can join other young people choosing to remain sexually pure. \n\nYou can also look here:
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Absolutely!  \n\nMy kids are still in elementary school, but I know that high school is just around the corner.  I think it is appalling that kids can learn those types of things here, or anywhere.  \n\nI am disgusted at the questions kids are asking on here about sex and the like.  I pray that I can steer my kids clear of this kind of filth.  They're great, innocent kids so far.  \n\nKids are even having others do their homework on this site!  Unbelievable!
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lol my friend and I were talking about that one day. She said that if a girl wants to have sex she needs to use a dildo. They would help with the teen pregnancy and with all the std's . I said yea but that would be really weird to teach in school. my answer will be no im sorry that would be strange to teach in school.
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In the U.S. ?\nSee the link below.