Sunday, November 18, 2007

whos involved in the fight!

Proponents of abstinence-only sex education argue that this approach is superior to comprehensive sex education for several reasons. They say that sex education should emphasize teaching a morality that limits sex to that within the bounds of marriage and that sex outside marriage and at a young age has heavy physical and emotional costs

Opponents to abstinence only argue that such programs fail to provide adequate helpful information to young people and verge on religious interference in secular education. Critics dispute the claim that comprehensive sex education encourages teens to have premarital sex. The idea that sexual intercourse should only occur within marriage also has serious implications for certain types of people for whom marriage is either not valued or desired, or is unavailable as an option, particularly homosexuals living in places where same-sex marriage is not legal or socially acceptable.

-Wikipedia

1 comment:

Mike said...

Wikipedia is amazing!