More than three quarters of parents and teachers say that they want their students to be taught a wide range of issues in sex education courses, including: sexual orientation, abortion, contraceptives, and the emotional consequences of sex (Parents 20)(Abstinence-Only 7). The United States government, however is funding mostly abstinence based sex education, with "their 'exclusive purpose' to be teaching the 'social, psychological, and health gains' to be realized from abstinence"(Should 1). The federal government is spending $50 million plus 75 percent matching funds each year for a total of $435 million over five years far more than any other sex education program (Sex-Ed 12). This typifies the stalemate between opponents on either side of the abstinence-only comprehensive debate where no agreement is in sight. But neither side will admit that sex education is working. They just argue about what se should change to make it work. Abstinence proponents will argue that kids !
             that take abstinence pledges hold off from sex eighteen months longer than those who didn't take a pledge (Abstinence 5), but they fail to realize that those who took the pledge had already decided not to have sex and those who didn't were already planning to have sex. The pledge didn't change many people's minds; all that it did was separate people who had already made their own decisions. The solution to the problems of sexed up teenagers lies not in more education and certainly not in screaming NO, NO, NO; it can be found everywhere except the classroom, outside the glare of the worried parent or the befuddled teacher. The problem lies with society and our culture of loose ethics and lax responsibility.
             When the president can get a blowjob and then immediately turn around and tell the kiddies to keep their flies up and their knees together, there is a problem. Society is the main culprit in the problems w...