By Kendall Stewart As a teen-ager, I think that teaching abstinence in schools doesn’t work. Schools with a health education program that promotes abstinence aren’t really teaching anything at all – I think they’re avoiding the problem and sweeping it under the rug. But as history proves, avoiding a problem doesn’t make it go away, [...]
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Teens and Tweens Need Sex Ed, Says This Teen
April 13th, 2009 by Teen Contributor · No Comments · Teen Talk
Tags: abstinence·health education·safe sex·sex·STDs·Teen Health·teen pregnancy
Sex Ed Grows Up
February 9th, 2009 by Angela Lee · No Comments · Teen Talk
A recent Boston Globe Sunday magazine article reported that high school students are shown images of people engaged in sexual intercourse, taught how to properly use condoms–and more, all during their sex education classes. Wow, has sex ed been given a makeover. This program—called Our Whole Lives (OWL)—is implemented [...]
