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Comments on: Teaching Abstinence http://greenorlando.com/ethics/teaching-abstinence.html The place for things green in the City Beautiful Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Anthony http://greenorlando.com/ethics/teaching-abstinence.html#comment-112 Anthony Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:27:08 +0000 http://greenorlando.com/ethics/teaching-abstinence/#comment-112 Very insightful. You were fortunate to have the strong presence at home coupled with the safe sex teachings of school. My fear, having taught sex education as a science teacher, is that the programs aren't given enough time in school and frequently not addressed at home. I squeezed safe sex, drug awareness, and empowerment into a three week session at school. It's not enough, and though I did a fair job and I'm young enough to relate, should a science teacher be the guy delivering the message? Kids these days need lessons in self-esteem and dealing with peer pressure as much as they need lessons in math and grammar. Very insightful. You were fortunate to have the strong presence at home coupled with the safe sex teachings of school. My fear, having taught sex education as a science teacher, is that the programs aren’t given enough time in school and frequently not addressed at home. I squeezed safe sex, drug awareness, and empowerment into a three week session at school. It’s not enough, and though I did a fair job and I’m young enough to relate, should a science teacher be the guy delivering the message?

Kids these days need lessons in self-esteem and dealing with peer pressure as much as they need lessons in math and grammar.

]]> By: Nate Downes http://greenorlando.com/ethics/teaching-abstinence.html#comment-51 Nate Downes Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:32:13 +0000 http://greenorlando.com/ethics/teaching-abstinence/#comment-51 Your statistics are quite abnormal, and don't jive with any I have read. Figures speak loud and clear: In Abstinence only curriculum, a full 80% of participants not only fail to remain abstinent, but when they do fail they engage in dangerous behavior. A heavy portion catch STD's and pregnancies are a typical 2-3x as great as curriculums that teach safe sex. Now, noone is arguing against Abstinence, I conciously chose it myself during high-school, but I chose it after being educated in both abstinence *and* safe sex. A complete education, giving the child all of the knowledge available, is key. Knowledge is power, and trust is crucial. You must trust your child, after you educate them, to make the right choice. My mother gave me a thurough sex education, teaching me probably far more than anyone that goes through a public school system ever could fathom, and for that I am grateful. When I finally chose to abandon abstinence, when I was 19, it was with a woman I loved deeply and passionately, and if the fates were not so cruel as to have me loose her, I would have married her. She taught me the first thing that none of these programs teach: that sex may be enjoyable, but when it is for love it becomes so much more. Children will be children, they will make the wrong decisions even when given all of the knowledge. To claim that today, children are more sexually active than in the past is beyond foolhearty, it is downright dangerous. Did you know that in the 50's the teenage pregnancy rate was higher than it is today? And that was with an abstinence-only educational mindset. The pregnancy rate only dropped, as did the numbers of teenagers engaging in sex, after safe-sex classes rose to prominance. Knowledge truely is power. Your statistics are quite abnormal, and don’t jive with any I have read. Figures speak loud and clear:

In Abstinence only curriculum, a full 80% of participants not only fail to remain abstinent, but when they do fail they engage in dangerous behavior. A heavy portion catch STD’s and pregnancies are a typical 2-3x as great as curriculums that teach safe sex.

Now, noone is arguing against Abstinence, I conciously chose it myself during high-school, but I chose it after being educated in both abstinence *and* safe sex. A complete education, giving the child all of the knowledge available, is key. Knowledge is power, and trust is crucial. You must trust your child, after you educate them, to make the right choice. My mother gave me a thurough sex education, teaching me probably far more than anyone that goes through a public school system ever could fathom, and for that I am grateful. When I finally chose to abandon abstinence, when I was 19, it was with a woman I loved deeply and passionately, and if the fates were not so cruel as to have me loose her, I would have married her. She taught me the first thing that none of these programs teach: that sex may be enjoyable, but when it is for love it becomes so much more.

Children will be children, they will make the wrong decisions even when given all of the knowledge. To claim that today, children are more sexually active than in the past is beyond foolhearty, it is downright dangerous. Did you know that in the 50’s the teenage pregnancy rate was higher than it is today? And that was with an abstinence-only educational mindset. The pregnancy rate only dropped, as did the numbers of teenagers engaging in sex, after safe-sex classes rose to prominance. Knowledge truely is power.

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