Sex Education

I feel it is incredibly reckless to give children inadequate sex education. Probably the worst thing we can do is nothing, and the second-worst is to teach abstinence. Youths will learn one way or another, but if we leave it up to them it's hard to say how much misinformation they will run with. I remember when I was in school, and kids talk, and I remember the awful misinformation that went around. Abstinence is a joke. Don't get me wrong; I'd prefer my kids not be sexuality acting until they're older, but I know how they are because I was them once, and people do it all the time. If they're going to, they need correct information to work with. Anything else is egregiously irresponsible.

whats wrong with teaching abstenance? why would it be bad teaching kids to just not have sex? no pregnancy. no std. no harm.

I think it should be up to parents to teach there kids these things.

If they aren't taught properly by schools or parents, they will teach each other, and not necessarily correctly. I remember the garbage passed around by my classmates, like standing on your head to somehow prevent pregnancy, that if you go so long without sex you're a virgin again, eating certain foods increases or decreases chances of pregnancy, or somehow the phases of the moon makes a difference. That's horrible.