Yes. By learning what to do or stuffs to use to avoid pregnancy, it will lessen the probability of young teens getting pregnant. BUT this doesn't mean it's a good idea too.

Teens wanted to explore, to experiment. I bet they're gonna follow contraceptive methods, they'll learn from the program of course. But they'll abuse. Knowing that there are these stuffs that could make them have safe sex, for sure they'll just have sex whenever they like. There'll be no control this time because they know what to do to prevent pregnancy.

I believe that every great idea have fall backs. Like an effective medicine which has side effects, this idea could be good but can have unwanted effects too. It can cure the problem but can raise another one.

If this will be pursued in every school, I am afraid of how teens will be in the future.
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Im still amazed they call it SEX education. As the times have changed so has our understanding of what intercourse and relationships are.Does sex education prevent unwanted teenage pregnancy, does it stop teenage sex? At the point of intercourse where a responsible moral individual would stop and question weather or not proceeding into a sexual relationship would be a good idea.Keep in mind the word "teenage" implies inexperence. When have you known a teenager to make adult decisions. Has Sex education reduced the amount of intercourse related diseases? Their is probably a government site where information on the incidence of teenage pregnancys have either increased or decreased over the years.
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I believe that nothing can help prevent unwanted teenage pregnancy...well it may help a little...but it all depends on the person that's being taught...if they want to be safe and dont want a kid...then they would practice abstinence (sp) or just be really really careful...like getting checkups...or wearing condoms and taking birth controls...now i understand none of these are a hundred percent protective...but at least theyre actually thinking about what may or may not happen...i believe that pregnancy usually happens because people dont believe that getting pregnant will ever happen to them...because they let their guard down...i know a lot of people my age (20) and took sex ed with me and already have one or two kids...It's not a bad thing...i see that they love their kids dearly...but that just shows that it doesn't depend on whether the teacher was good enough...or if the tests and the homework were helpful enough...it all depends on the person and if the person is willing to take all that information and willing to use it...remember it in their every day lives...it is the person that makes the decision...not the teachers for them...not the homework...but the person themselves...the decisions that we make are what makes us

But then some do do checkups and try to be safe...but end up getting pregnant...all that matters in the end is if the person cares for the child and is a good parent
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Yes definitely specially if you show the girls plenty of painful child births and point out all the bad things, like the ripping and the blood poring out for weeks after, gah stopped me from having sex until I was old enough. Grossed me out so much I didn't want to chance it at all. Also another thing that worked on me was reading me lots of fairy tails when I was younger, it caused me to want to wait until I was in love, I wanted my knight in shining armor. Also letting your children know that it's not cool to be sexually active in middle school helps, I had friends in middle school performing oral on the eighth graders, needless to say I stopped hanging around them, I mean I still played with barbies on occasion and played pretend games, I am a little childish I have to admit even still, but really 6th graders should still be worrying about simply getting their first kiss not going down on the older boys. Um, basically what I'm saying is yes you need sex ed, it's very important but that's not the only thing you need, you need the parents to teach their children morals. I mean me and my class mates had sex ed every year from 5th grade until our freshman year and yet there were still pregnancies though I think actually only like two really and one could have been just a rumor, mostly just the boys were getting girls from other schools pregnant. Though there were only like 34 people in my graduating class though so two is still kinda a lot I think, but imagine if we hadn't gotten all that info drilled in for five years? so many more of those girls would have gotten pregnant specially with all the boys that were able to get the girls from the other schools pregnant.
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