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Today's parents are better educated, more aware, technologically connected and in better health than their parents, yet they can't parent well enough to suit you?
Ummm.....No, they can't parent well enough for me.....and when they don't, I, as a taxpayer, have to pick up the tab.
Teen pregnancy accounts for more than $9 billion per year in costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.4
Pregnancy and birth are significant contributors to high school drop out rates among girls. Only about 50% of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by age 22, versus nearly 90% of women who had not given birth during adolescence.5
The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.6
A lot of parents aren't doing a very good job of parenting, are they? Can you imagine the stats if we had NO sex ed in the schools?
These stats also show that we obviously need to mandate, upgrade and nationalize sex ed.....certainly not eliminate it.
As a taxpayer, I have a vested interest in seeing that kids are provided the best sex ed possible in school.....especially since so many parents fail to do the job.
So, the government should assume the role of surrogate parent? Once you start down that road, where does it end? If you don't trust parents to be parents in one area, why in any area at all?
I don't care if it's offensive, leaving it up to the parents will leave far too many uneducated, mis-educated, or mal-educated children. There should absolutely be standards.
Should We Have National Standards for Sex Education in the Schools?
I think we should first make sure students can read, write and comprehend intelligently before implementing sex education.
And despite billions of dollars and multiple layers of "knowledgable" people with carefully studied approaches, the numbers are still dismal. Our schools are still failing. Why would we assume they could do better with yet another diversion from academics?
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Teen pregnancy accounts for more than $9 billion per year in costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.
