Teens are getting pregnant less and less now that many schools are allowing sex education in schools. Many people would disagree that schools actually help teens learn about teen pregnancies and just makes teens more troubled. Parents think that schools are taking over the role of parent when allowing sex education in schools without the parent’s permission. Also some schools think that allowing sex education in schools wouldn’t help the teen learn anything about it and it would be a waste of money and resources.
Why sex ed should be in schools with parents involved is teens don’t know a lot about teen pregnancies. According to No Bullying’s article “More Essential Teen Pregnancy Facts to Learn” it states, “More than half of teens in the United
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By the age of fifteen 16 percent of teens will have had sex, 48 percent by age 17, 61 percent by age 18, and 71 percent by age 19 will have had sex.” Many teens have sex not because they haven’t been taught what it is, but because it’s sometimes what they want. They don’t know how to control it nor how to deal with it so they do what they want to do. Also teens sometimes are raised differently and opinions are different. As stated in “More Essential Teen Pregnancy Facts to Learn”, “Those teens grow up to have a lax opinion when it comes to having sex in the future and are more likely to get pregnant.” Teens sometimes think it’s okay to have sex at young ages because they haven’t been taught or have learned that there’s the possibility of them getting pregnant. As