nd adults of the US today are blind to how teaching abstinence only will affect the rate of teens engaging in sex, the pregnancy rate, the STD rate, and the HIV/AIDS rate. With abstinent only programs taught in schools, all of these rates will increase, due to the lack of education that kids will not receive in their sex education classes.
             Parents need to understand that their kids are engaging in sexual activity. No matter how much some parents do not want to believe it, it is a fact (Donovan). Studies done by the National Center for Health Statistics show that by age 20, eight out of ten males and seven out of ten females have engaged in sexual intercourse (Abowd). Most teenagers that do engage in sex have done it in high school. Out of the teens who are having sex, TeenSTAR, an abstinence program in Bethesda, Maryland, says that, "many kids don't want to engage in sexual activity but don't know a nice way to say no"(Abowd). But even if teens have a hard time saying no, it doesn't change statics. Teens are still engaging sex before marria
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