SEX-EDUCATION VS. ABSTINENCE-ONLY EDUCATION
            
            
             Why is it that even in times like these, when teen pregnancy rates and the transmission of STDs are at their highest, schools all over the United States are continuing to distribute condoms? Instead of teaching kids to wait to have sex, we're being taught how to use condoms and where to go for help and parenthood planning. Girls in the 7th grade are no longer asking "Where do babies come from?" Now the big question is "Do you spit or swallow?" What does this say about the future health of our country? What about moral and religious teachings from parents? Teaching kids about which contraceptives to use takes away a parent's legal and legitimate right of raising their children. What is a teen supposed to think when abstinence is being stressed at home, but as soon as school starts, the teen is practicing putting condoms on a banana at their desk? This is how today's children are being taught-not to stay pure until marriage, but to have sex as long as a condom is used. Sex-education classes should be turned into abstinence-only classes, and condoms should no longer be distributed in schools.
             There is no doubt about it-people have sex. The invention of condoms has helped mankind and will continue to help until something better comes along. But condom advocates have overstepped their boundaries and penetrated the public schools. More than 400 schools in the United States offer condoms to students. Most of these offer an unrestricted supply at high school-based health clinics and vending machines. Yes, this may seem like the government is doing us a good deed, but thousands of teens still slack off on using contraception, even when they can walk right into their school clinic and pick up a handful of Trojans. Teen condom use has risen steadily over the past two decades as sex-education programs have become more common and explicit. Over that same period of time, teen preg...