The Benefits Of Abstinence Of Sex Education

Children are the future generation of the world. Their mind, belief and understanding of life are created through the baseline of their childhood. Educating a young child about sex can be a difficult subject to come across. Schools around the world have slowly incorporated some type of abstinence-only sex education for children, yet, the sex education that students receive lack a good foundation for them. The abstinence- only sex education program only focuses on promoting abstinence from sex, character building, does not teach about contraception and condom use, avoids talking about sexually transmitted diseases, and does not acknowledge that teenagers will become sexually active (Fentahun, 2012). The sex education programs in school have
Many people believed that abstinence- only programs are the only beneficial program to reduce the number of sexual activities in young adults. In Walcott, Chenneville, and Tarquini (2011) study, the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 funded $50 million over 5 years to states to educate students about being abstinence. The study actually showed that that abstinence-only programs had no different affect than any general health- promoting program. Also, the study showed that abstinence-only programs simply delayed sexual activities to those who have not initiated, but it did not provide the students with the knowledge to protect themselves from pregnancy and STDs (Walcott, Chenneville, and Tarquini, 2011). The program that actually had a positive impact in delaying sex, increasing condom usage, and reducing the number of partners were comprehensive sex education programs. These direct sex education programs combined both abstinence and condom. The researchers finding showed that comprehensive sex education developed a more positive attitude and stronger intention to have safe sex with college students that had a comprehensive sex education from K-12th grade. Comprehensive sex education program such as Get Real was able to get 16% fewer boys and 15% few girls from having sex by grade 8 compared to regular abstinence- only program (Grossman, 2014). A study done by Constantine (2015) used the Sexuality Education Initiative (SEI) to document the changes of the students’ ability to manage their sexuality before and after their comprehensive sex education. The SEI showed that students that had the comprehensive sex education showed a statistically significantly greater improvement than the students that received the abstinence-only education (control group) program (Constantine, 2015). Sex educators’ state that traditional