For a conservative state like Mississippi, a Bill signed by Governor Haley Barbour last week which establishes some kind of sex education in public schools is a surprisingly decent effort to dominate the growing problem of pregnancies.
Although many lawmakers were opposed to the law, and many people prefer here is explained at home instead of at the school, there is no doubt that the rate of teenage pregnancy abysmally high in the State requires some kind of action to stop this problem.
The draft law requires districts to establish a program within the school year 2012-13. Wisely, has a lot of safeguards built in.
The main of them is that the classes are optional, the parents have to sign papers allowing her child in the class. The law also requires that children be taught in separate classes. Finally, cannot be discussed abortion as a means of birth control.
School boards may choose between an "abstinence-only" or a "withdrawal" program or a program developed by the State.
It only indicates that abstaining from sex before marriage and remaining faithful married form "only determined to avoid pregnancy outside of marriage." The program can talk about condoms if you include the risks and failure rates, but can not discuss how to use them.
Withdrawal allows the discussion of other contraceptives, along with more details about the diseases of sexually transmitted infections and their prevention.
The Act also established a group of teen pregnancy prevention. One of its missions is to see if none of this works by measuring the changes in the rate of pregnancy in adolescence of a region and analyzing if programs of abstinence or abstinence only make any difference in the rates of adolescent pregnancy.
The cold truth of the matter is that it will be difficult for any programme of sex education to make a difference. Adolescents are exposed to a lot of sexual images as adolescents. American popular culture - music, television and film - is full of such images, and most flagrant obtains all the time.
Parents monitor what their children see and hear may be convinced that ultimately natural curiosity will get the best of their children. At that point, parents should expect children some of what has warned above will sink.
Another cold truth is that most of the burden of teen pregnancy to young mothers and their families. Let us hope that classroom curricula will be placed on the fact that although pregnancy may be physically uncomfortable, is that you nothing in comparison with pains, frustrations and costs of raising a child.
Ideally, the opponents of the bill were right when they said that sex should be debated at home. But you're not talking in enough homes, and this problem is holding back potential of the Mississippi. The program worth to try it.
Enterprise-Journal, McComb
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