Assignment:
Q.1 People have vastly different opinions on the role and responsibility of schools to provide sex education. Teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are real problems facing our adolescent population. In some cases, the decision to engage in a sexual relationship is a life or death decision.
200 words
References:
Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O., & Martini, T. (2019). Introduction to psychology: Gateways to mind and behavior (15th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.
Q.2 100 Words
So sex education is a big contreversey and people have alot of different opinions on this topic. I feel though that it should be taught in school for numerous reasons. I do feel is though it is important to know to be protected be aware of things such as STDs and alot of other things involving sex. There are many people who do not know anything about sex because maybe they dont have parents and or have parents who are open to talking about things like this to there children. I feel like there should be no extent to sex education, I believe that if you are going to teach some of it why not just learn about everything there is to know about sex.
The extent that parents should be left with sex education is talking to the child about safety when having sex to prevent getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant. Also parents should discuss with their children about things that you can get if whoever they are having it with is not clean or may have infections etc.. Generally parents should teach their children all about sex espeacially about STDs. I feel as though us as teens are not very educated about things like this and I believe our parents should be more open about with us to prevent us from catching these things.
In the book it states ‘Sexually active persons should practice safer sex until their partner'a sexual history or health is clearered appropriatley."(Coon,Pg373). With this being said both our parents and school should educate us on STDs. Without anyone telling us these things we would not know to have our partner checked for us to know if they have something that can be harmful. Also if maybe if someone's parents is not open to the conversation as other parents I feel is though the school should tell them. This topic is very controversial and I am glad to see what others are opinions of this topic is and hope you enjoy reading mine.
References
Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O., & Martini, T. (2019). Introduction to psychology: Gateways to mind and behavior (15th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.
Q. 3
Sex Education in Schools
Schools should teach sex education, but they should not be fully responsible, the parents need to take part as well. We can all agree that we have different views on sex, as who should be engaging in them, when is a good age for kids to start having sex, when to start talking to our kids about sex. Some people opinion stems from a religious background and others look at their personal experiences or moral. Some parents may not agree on someone teaching their kids about sex with the view of you can have sex once your mature and protect yourself, parents may want to do that themselves.
"The problem today isn't that our kids are learning about sex," explains Professor of education and author, Diane Levin. "The problem is what they are learning, the age at which they're learning it, and who is teaching them. Children get a very powerful and damaging kind of sex education from marketers and the popular culture." I believe that parents need to make sure that they educate their children about sex before the age of puberty, they need to understanding this natural change that's because children are increasingly being exposed to graphic sexual material on TV and the Internet, in books, and in comics.
Parents have a huge roll in sex education, they need to make sure that their kids understand the risk of having sex. They need to know that having unprotected sex can lead to unwanted pregnancy or catching HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). children need to be educated about the topic and understand the seriousness of it, as high school and college students remain too willing to engage in risky behavior (casual sex) and yet unwilling to use condoms (Bauman, Karasz & Hamilton, 2007) or any or other contraceptives. 21% of all new HIV diagnoses were among young people (aged 13-24) in 2017; 87% were young men and 13% were young women. Half of the 20 million new STDs reported each year were among young people (aged 15 to 24) Nearly 210,000 babies were born to teen girls (aged 15-19 years) in 2016.
Both parents and school can handle education about STDs. Parents can scratch the surface of the topic and schools can go deeper into it. The most important thing is that children are educated about the topic and understand the seriousness of it.
Word Count: 398
Coon, D., Mitterer, J.O., & Martini, T. (2019). Introduction to psychology: Gateways to mind and behavior (15th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.