10 Reasons We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in Our Schools

The whole idea of sex education in our schools, and how comprehensive sex education should be are controversial subjects. The more conservative people in our society would rather just tell kids to abstain and leave it at that, but does that really solve our problem? I don't think so, this whole idea harkens back to the days of marrying young girls off to older men without telling them about what a wedding night entails. Too little information in my mind can be just as bad as giving kids the wrong kind of information.

Here are 10 reasons why we need comprehensive sex education in our schools:

1. Sex is not a topic that kids are discussing at home with their parents. Many parents aren't comfortable discussing sex, and prefer to hope that their children are figuring it out from other sources such as television, movies, their friends and school. This is a dangerous hit and miss method that leaves kids in the dark, and causes them to make in some cases disastrous mistakes.

2. Kids are bombarded daily by the media with sexual topics and images. All you have to do these days is turn on the television, read the newspaper, or surf the internet to find sexual themed media. Our kids have easy access to it, and these media often do not provide accurate information.

3. 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.

4. Children are having sex at earlier ages. 63% of kids who are high school age have had sex by the time they reach their senior year. If this isn't a scary thought to parents of teens, it should be, especially if they haven't taken the time to sit their kids down and explain consequences.

5. Rates for teens getting and transmitting std's are soaring. That's right, our kids are clearly not getting the message about safe sex practices because the rates on teens and std's are up and climbing. We need to educate our kids before they get to the point of being sexually active so they don't wind up contracting diseases and or getting pregnant in the first place.