Developing_A_Sex-Ed_Program_For_Adolescents

Developing A Sex-Ed Program For Adolescents Developing a Sex-Ed program for Adolescents Sex Education in the schools can be seen as a relatively straightforward biology lesson, albeit one that sets off more than a few nervous giggles in the back row. It can also be seen in terms of public health, as the key to preventing AIDS, increase awareness about STDs, improve decision making about teenage pregnancy. Sex education should be a program that explains sexuality in the context of a value system that emphasizes love and marriage. Adolescents need the right information to help protect themselves. The US has more than double the teenage pregnancy rate of any western industrialized country, with more than a million teenagers becoming pregnant each year. Teenagers have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) of any age group, with one in four young people contracting STD by the age of 21(health class). STDs, including HIV, can damage teenagers' health and reproductive ability. And there is still no cure for AIDS. Knowledge alone is not enough to change behaviors. Programs that rely mainly on conveying information about sex or moral precepts-how the body's sexual system functions, what teens should and shouldn't do-have failed. So we need programs sex, education, should, programs, about, sexually, teenagers, stds, school, program, need, countries, been, teenage, sexual, schools, rates, pregnancy, health, age, adolescents, active, teens, teen, system, seen, rate, protect, pregnancies, parents, one, often, marriage, information, including