A Project Wrap Up

To conclude this blog on the debate of abstinence only sex education. I will finish the steps TOWARD demonstrating authority over and argument.
4. Is the government justified in deciding what a child should learn about sex safely?
In a world where religion plays a role in politics school subject matter is a resource of political agendas not a child's well being.

5. the main players
1)those who oppose abstinence only education
a)Population Control
-better/ more planned pregnancy
- less abortions
b) right to education
- women/men need to know how to prevent
- all encompassing education necessary
- no blissful ignorance
c) Civil separation of church and state
- abstinence is forcing religion on students
- sex education is not a bible lesson
D) Medical
- prevent STD's
- tell of risks of sex

2. Those who are in opposition of all encompassing sex education.
A) religious
- Preach Abstinence as only because bible
- no need to teach it because they will wait
- various denominations
B) Moral
- teach promiscuity
- sex is repugnant

5. The true controversy is really does teaching birth control methods encourage increased promiscuity.

This ultimately leads to a negative peace.

6. Those who are in support of education which implies abstinence as the sole means of pregnancy prevention.
Those who support the entitlement of students to the right to a full range sex education fro healthy choices.

7. Historically:
Those who support abstinence only site the bible as their reason, in that one should save themselves for marriage.
Those who are in support of teaching contraceptive use site statistics in reducing the rate of stds and pregnancy.

8.Jumps in the sides logic.
Their goal in abstinence only education is to reduce promiscuity, not pregnancy or std reduction. this is a moral issue not a schooling issue.
The opposition who believe that sex education should include contraceptive use use statistics that only show correlation on causation in pregnancy and std rates not how many students have sex.

9. they both want the same thing: safe and healthy children

10. The president has given extra money to states that mandate abstinence only education. Some states have been forced to teach this to receive needed money.

11. Because this issue is intertwined with politics, the debate has never been ended. In hopes to get votes one side will choose a view, and to get the opposite voters, the other candidate will take the opposing side.

12. Why must one side win?
Could children choose which they prefer?
would a new format find a compromise?

13. What if any is the benefit between exposing students to education both including the benefits of abstinence as well as safe sex, in lowering rates of teen pregnancy and stds.

So ultimately could there be a win/win situation?
Until the religious aspect is removed from the political landscape, and the state no longer runs public schools, this issue cannot be solved. The best effort to appease both sides is to allow children to choose.