NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina and Sex Education
NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina has made great strides in their effort to bring comprehensive sex education to teens in North Carolina. Last week, the commonsense legislation passed the House and now it moves on to the Senate. The affiliate's executive director, Sean Kosofsky, has a great post up on RH Reality Check explaining a bit more about the legislation:
It has been quite a year for North Carolina. The state voted for Barack Obama, defeated Elizabeth Dole, and elected the first female governor (who happens to also be pro-choice). But the changes don't just stop there. With changing demographics in our state and a clarion call for sanity from Washington, comprehensive sex education could just be just around the corner.
Be sure to check it out.
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I am a student at UWF and I support sex education in schools. I think it's important to ensure that America's youth is aware when it comes to sex allowing them to make more educated decisions regarding the subject. However I must respectfully disagree with the assumption that lack of education is the sole cause of the rising number of underaged pregnancies and other sex-related issues. We must also take into account the power of pop culture and media. If we really want to educate kids we should educate them on the difference between reality and whats presented to them in magazines and television. We have all heard it, "Sex sells!" but should we sacrifice the well being of America's youth? for more information on the matter u may refer to this link: It goes into more detail on how the media has effected the views on sexuality obtained by many adolescence teenagers.
here's that link
http://www.socyberty.com/Sociology/Adolescence-Sexuality--the-Media.390253.
Thanks for the post jstivers35.
But nowhere in my post on RH did I imply that "lack of education is the sole cause of the rising number of underaged pregnancies" There are many factors but education is the leading one. It also comes down to self-esteem, income, culture and to a small degree pop culture. I actually think peers have way more influence than pop culture but you are right it probably plays a role. Thank you for commenting.
But I am certain that education is the number one issue that will reduce new unintended pregnancies and STDs.
Is irresponsibility by those having sex (and their parents) also a major factor in under age pregnancy?