The first step is improving sex education: Argumentative essay.
In the U.S, more than 750,000 girls ages 15-19 become pregnant every year. More than 80
percent of these are unintended pregnancies, according to dosomething.org. That is a great amount
of teenagers that could have potentially dodged a bullet with a little more sexual education. Will a lack
of sexual education continue to play a role in the overwhelming amount of teenage mothers in America?
In my opinion of course it will. Just like the article states, sex education is rising in American schools,
and this is in favor of my argument on how I greatly support this upward movement my reason is we
are just falling way behind! Further thought out and well presented sex education will reduce teen
pregnancy and spread of sexual diseases.
How exactly will better sex education in the states lead to fewer sex incidents within the sexually
active community? Simply by education.
Lack of education in anything will not give you positive results.
Although it is said that there is no strong proof that teaching sex education will have any effect on
teenagers and young adults, there is proof. Ex. Hechinger writes "Analysis in sex education in Sweden,
Holland, France, Great Britain and Canada show us lagging far behind" (143). Reading the article and
noticing the particular countries mentioned, I went to research. The countries mentioned are up to par
with America as far as development and economy go, but fall way behind when it comes to all things
sexual! We not only have higher teenage birth rates, we also have higher sexually transmitted diseases
and lower use of oral contraceptives. The statistics and education don't lie. I would have personally
benefited from a more well put together sex education class and many other young...