Sex education not be made compulsory in school.

" I am surprised you had no comment about the importance of respect. I must say, it bothers me respectfulness doesn't SEEM to be of an importance to you." 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. "Not standard sex education. It decreases the likelihood of teenage pregnancies, but doesn't guarantee you will not get pregnant and doesn't protect you against ALL STD's. Not only this, the contraceptive only protects you wear you are covered at. This being said, it is really easy to get a STD because of contact between the semen and skin." What are you referring to as 'standard' 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]. "Why have a reduced risk when there could be no risk? Besides who wants to be infertile?" 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. "It seems to me mainstream scientist don't want to give abstinence programs any credit because they are scared of the sucess they have had. I guess you didn't want to read that evidence I presented supporting abstinence programs in round one, huh?" Aside the evidence that I refuted in round two, it appears that I misread your other evidence as mere sources. 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, I know having a seat belt in a car enourages me to drive because it makes me FEEL safe. Just like many other people out there. I mean, it is pretty dangerous driving a car considering the fact more people die from car accidents than gun shots." 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. "Well, technically this is going off topic anyways. Why? A less need for children goes along the lines of overpopulation. We aren't debating whether the world is overpopulated or not. We are debating whether standard sex education is beneficial or not. And if standard sex education is MORE beneficial than abstinence programs." So, I take it that you are just giving up this point? "http://www.prb.org...; 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. "" 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]" 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. " " 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. "Abstinence by Choice. Abstinence by Choice operated in 20 schools in the Little Rock area of Arkansas. The program targeted seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students and reached about 4,000 youths each year. The curriculum included a five-day workshop with speakers, presentations, skits, videos, and an adult mentoring component.A 2001 evaluation analyzed a sample of 329 students and found that only 5.9 percent of eighth grade girls who had participated in Abstinence by Choice a year earlier had initiated sexual activity compared with 10.2 percent of non-participants. Among eighth grade boy participants, 15.8 percent had initiated sexual activity, compared with 22.8 percent among non-participating boys.[35] (The sexual activity rate of students in the program was compared with the rate of sexual activity among control students in the same grade and schools prior to commencement of the program.)" 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. 1. http://thinkprogress.org... 2. http://www.webmd.com... 3. http://www.chicagotribune.com... 4. http://www.mathematica-mpr.com... 5. http://www.hawaii.edu... 6. http://www.cdc.gov... 7. http://www.washingtonpost.com...