Many of these people are actually against teaching sex-ed. They're against teaching the use and providing contraception to the youth. I work for a school system and we undertand that many children are sexually active at young ages and it's important to give them the facts about sex, pregnancy, desease etc..... but when you atempt to do this some parents cause an uproar and shuts the program down before it even starts.
It's horrible. :sad:
I've talked with plenty of parents over the years. Those who don't want their kids taking sex-ed in school because
they want to be the ones who educate their kids on sex. Talking years later with their kids, all they heard was "don't do it until you're married." Unless they had parents who actually tried, and then it was the basics of reproduction on how a baby is conceived. Nothing about STD's. Nothing about orientation. Nothing about contraceptives. They're being given the notion that none of that is needed if they would just wait to get married to a person of the opposite sex.
As much as I gripe about the school district that one of our sons goes to, there is one thing they get right. Comprehensive sex education. Everything is covered. From awareness to orientation to contraception to masturbation to going over all the known myths and dispelling them one by one.
One of our other sons goes to a school district that doesn't have comprehensive sex education. Their teen pregnancy rate is through the roof. And let me tell you how often husband is talking with our son to be sure he's "not doing anything stupid"....according to husband. Not that he's trying to stop him. He'll be 18 in a few days. But he wants to be sure he's educated.