Every year the amount of pregnant teens and people affected with STDs rises. This is not a coincidence; this is because of Abstinence-only education programs that are still in effect all over the United States and are continuing to provide youth with wrong and offensive information. Despite its attempts to guide youth to remain abstinent and safe, Abstinence-only education does not work efficiently. Abstinence-only education offers adolescents very little information on safe-sex and often leaves them feeling dirty and guilty. While it may be true that the only 100% effective form of protection may be abstinence. It has been studied and proven on countless occasions that teens have sex before marriage. ¨Only 7% of men and 20% of women 18 to …show more content…
And I could not agree more. According to Bruggink, ¨Promoting marriage and discouraging premarital sex through fear and false information remains a benchmark of abstinence-only sex education.¨ (Bruggink). Installing fear in the youth may seem to work but, it is unethical to install fear into the youth using false facts. If the youth continues to get taught that sex is bad and marriage is good then you will bring up an entire generation of people with low self-esteem all because they gave into a natural human …show more content…
According to John Santelli in "Abstinence-only education doesn't work. We're still Funding it.¨ Written in August of this 2017 Santelli states that ,¨Congress added new funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, bringing the annual total to $90 million.¨ (Santelli). Even though Abstinence-only education has been proven not to work, "There does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence, or reduces the number of sexual partners."(Watkins). The federal government is wasting our country's money on funding programs that are ineffective and degrading. Time and time again research has shown that comprehensive sex education is to most efficient way to go. Megan K. Donovan shares that , ¨leading public health and medical professional organizations support a comprehensive approach to sex education--stressing the need for medically accurate, age-appropriate curricula that include information about both abstinence and contraception.¨ (Donovan). With all of this knowledge abstinence-only education is still being promoted throughout the entire United