Sex education not be made compulsory in school.

"Even if there was a drop in pregnancies, the U.S. still remains with the highest rate in teen pregancies in the western world." All the more reason to keep at the education. Currently, 83.5% of teenagers use condoms, pills, injections, or vaginal rings to protect against pregnancy, and only 12.9% had used no birth control in their last sexual encounter [1]. When this statistic is placed in the context of the correlation between mandatory sexual education, and teenage pregnancies by state, there is strong evidence to suggest that sexual education decreases the likelihood of teenage pregnancies [2]. "And wouldn't common sense tell you that encouraging them to go have sex would lead to a greater risk at catching a STD, despite them wearing a contraceptive? Besides, there is still a chance they could get pregnant either way, with or without the condom." Sex ed doesn't encourage sex, it encourages safe sex practices [3]. Also, of course there will be risks, but there is a reduced risk (I reiterate the strong correlation between contraceptive use and teenage pregnancy). "So, wouldn't it be better for us to teach our kids abstitence only with the consequences they could reap by having sex? This would include statistics that show the high percentage of people in the U.S. with STD's." According to the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, abstinence only education has "not demonstrated successful outcomes with re-gard to delayed initiation of sexual activity or use of safer sex practices" [4]. Also, your source regarding the alleged decrease in sexual activity from abstinence only education asserts that: "Two years after attending an eight-hour abstinence program, about one-third of the participants had initiated sexual activity, compared to nearly one-half of the non-participants who enrolled in a general health program. That is, the abstinence program reduced the rate of sexual initiation by one-third." One half minus one third is one sixth. Your source can't even do basic math correctly. "Maybe they aren't, but they sure keep you safe and encourage you to drive the vehicle." Exactly, it does keep me safe. As for encouragement, I can't say, as I have never driven any significant distance without wearing it. "No evidence for what? That the statement "There is a less need for children in this world," supports abortion?" Less need for children. Abortion is an entirely other debate. "Actually, there is an increasing percentage of the population which doesn't have family values, and are single parents (divorced and sexually active with people they know). Therfore, that goes along with women leaving there husbands, killing their children (abortion), and becomming lesbians (fragile relationships which leaves each gender mistrusting the other)." 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]. 1. http://www.cdc.gov... 2. http://thinkprogress.org... 3. http://en.wikipedia.org... (Note how seven different sources in six citations state that sexual education doesn't increase the onset or frequency of sexual activity). 4. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org... 5. http://www.nytimes.com...