Sex education not be made compulsory in school.

"Well, this is a debate about sexual education, and since that point seemed to be irrelevant to the topic at hand, I didn't see much point in commenting."*facepalm*"What are you referring to as 'standard' sex education?"No comment... (Meaning "safe sex education")"Secondly, I must reiterate the fact that nothing, not even surgery is 100% effective against pregnancy, but that does not mean that you should do it, as contraceptives (as asserted by the strong correlation in the previous round) does help prevent pregnancies [1][2]."That still doesn't take away from the fact, abistinence is 100% effective against pregnancy and STD's, if practiced. That being said, it needs to be taught in schools one way or the other. Even if "safe sex" education is being taught in schools. The government shouldn't have the right to only fund "safe sex" education and not Abstinence programs."You've contradicted yourself. Should the person have no risk, or not be infertile? Secondly, many people, including myself, wish to never be a father [3]. Personally, I loathe children and understand the huge amount of money it takes to raise a child."What I was saying is why take the rsik of being infertile, due to either contraceptives or STD's. Why not teach kids to wait until they are adults to have sex? Isn't that a better way to go? Why not teach kids to talk to their parent's about sex and teach parent's they need to talk to their kids about sex so they know the risks of having sex and how they could reap consequences of either contracting a STD or getting pregnant. Doesn't this go along with the parent/child relationship as far as trust goes? To your third comment, all the more reason to not have sex."Aside the evidence that I refuted in round two, it appears that I misread your other evidence as mere sources."That's a big mistake."To further provide evidence against your proposition for abstinence only education, I would like to point out a study that show that:" 10 percent of all study youth (8 percent of control group youth and 7 percent of program group youth) reported having unprotected sex at first intercourse. Over the last 12 months, 21 percent of both program and control group youth reported having sex and not always using a condom" [4]. The control group received no sex education of any kind.Secondly, an article posted by two university professors states that abstinence only education "is limited to teaching that a monogamous, marital, heterosexual relationship is the "expected standard of human activity" and that sex outside such a relationship will be physically and psychologically harmful. Abstinence-only education also advocates only one method to prevent disease and pregnancy, abstinence, and it offers no information concerning contraception and disease prevention except that all methods other than abstinence fail. As a result of its singular focus, the curricula not only pose significant problems with respect to ensuring minors" sexual health, but also ignore the needs of sexual minority youth altogether" [5]."Well, one study versus the many studies I have is very little evidence against abstinence only programs. Besides, even if it does provide evidence against abstinence only programs, I still have evidence in favor of Abstinence only programs. That right there, is enough to prove abstinence only programs is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Abstinence only programs are ineffective."Well you are just one person. Secondly, people are generally around cars a lot more than they are around guns, so it would be quite absurd to be afraid of cars all the time."How could it be absurd to be afraid of cars all of the time? It's not the car that makes the car dangerous, the person behind the wheel does. Therefore, if you aren't afraid of getting into an accident everyday driving on the road, you are more suceptible of getting into an accident yourself."So, I take it that you are just giving up this point?"I wasn't necessarily just giving up this topic, but saying we both should just drop it since it doesn't directly relate to the topic."What's the point of this? You were asserting that a lack of family values was causing the divorces. Your source cites economic reasons due to women getting an income in this day and age." Now, look at your comment from the other round."That is a non-sequitur (without evidence to support either) to say that a lack of family values causes women leaving their husbands, getting abortions, and becoming homosexual. On that last point especially, homosexuality has genetic causes not (or at least as well as) societal ones [5]."http://www.prb.org......Marital Status Among Young Adults Ages 25-34 (Percent)2000 2006 2007 2008 2009 Married 55.1 48.9 48.2 46.9 44.9 Never Married 34.5 41.4 42.6 43.9 46.3If you don't get the picture then I don't know what to tell you."Well what do you know. Some people that use contraceptives happen to get pregnant, and doesn't it make perfect sense that there might be a decent percentage of pregnant women that used contraceptives. The thing is, is that according to a CDC report: "The abortion rate for 2009 was 15.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15"44 years..." [6]. Your percentages barely make up over 1.5% of women.""" Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use.[8]"This goes to show that "safe sex" education just doesn't cut it because people are still making bad decisions, that result in inconvenient consequences. Besides, 15.1 abortions per 1,000 women is a lot more than just 1.5% when it comes to the entire population. We basically aborted an entire country." Forty-six percent of women who have abortions had not used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. Of these women, 33% had perceived themselves to be at low risk for pregnancy, 32% had had concerns about contraceptive methods, 26% had had unexpected sex.""Why did they perceive themselves as being at a low risk? Was this a form of self-medication, or lack of education, or both? Secondly, what does 'unexpected sex' mean? Is that rape, or a spur-of-the-moment situation. No amount of sexual education would help the former, and the latter is the result of high amounts of hormones that education ay not have much effect in such a situation." 33% had perceived themselves to be at low risk for pregnancy26% had had unexpected sexIf you put these two together that is 59%. Why did I do that? If these people had just simply been taught about the risks and consequences they could reap having sex these statistics wouldn't of been near as high according to the studies I've showed. The 32% could of been lower too, but apparently they weren't educated enough about the consequences for their actions. The parents most likely weren't involved in talking to them about sex either."Well, according to a congressional study: "...when the average child was just shy of 17, half of both groups had remained abstinent. The sexually active teenagers had sex the first time at about age 15. Less than a quarter of them, in both groups, reported using a condom every time they had sex. More than a third of both groups had two or more partners" [7]. One group was given abstinence only education, and the other group had no education. This study was done in both rural and urban communities, showing that the results have relevance to the majority of the country.As for your other source..."...the authors urged caution in interpreting these numbers due to the small sample size.[41]"...It practically refutes itself."Evidence can't refute it's self, whether big or small. It is still evidence and still a fact. Like I've stated before, the fact I do have plenty of evidence that shows Abstinence programs as being sucessfull in any kind of way proves abstinence programs are in fact sucessful. Therefore, I have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that abstinence programs are sucessful one way or another, despite your findings that abtinence programs aren't sucessful. The fact remains our government is micromanaging our education and should use ANY preventative sex program that is sucessfull. I also have evidence from plenty of different studies that show success. Being that there is MANY studies that have proved my point, this is overwhelming evidence for my argument. This shouldn't go overlooked and should be evident. I could post many more studies that have been done on abstinence progreams, but I feel that would be overkill. Anyways, all of my sources are here to see if you take the time to look. Other than that, adios amegos. Have fun on DDO!!