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Responsibility is one of the most important things a teen can learn. Sexual activity and the consequences are one of the biggest responsibilities anyone can face. I give full support to the idea that sex education should happen at the home. The advantage of learning it at school is that it is much better organised with increased resources. The downside is that their views may oppose yours.

Sex can lead to many problems, including; unwanted pregnancy/ unwanted child support payments and sexual diseases. Even if sex has no physical problems in a person's teenage years, there are still large risks of ongoing psychological damage.

We would like to say that just not having sex as a teen is the best thing to do. We know that telling our teen no is very rarely a successful strategy. Even if our teens wait till later to have sex, they still run all the same risks as with any other uneducated person.

The main reason this should be taught at schools is that it can be taught by a profession who has dedicated their life to sex education. They will know what the right things to say are and will be able to backup what they say with evidence. Even better than this is the fact that they have already received all of the possibly curveball questions that you can never prepare for. Sex educators are not there to tell your kids to have sex, nor are they there to stop it. A sex educator's main purpose is to educate on the risks associated with sex, and provide ways to reduce or prevent the risks. We cannot shelter our children from the world forever. There are so many risks associated with sex; many of them could be prevented with only a little education.

Having a child in your teens will severely limit your ability to reach your learning potential. It will also limit many other life choices and finances. This is not to say a teen may be a good parent, just to say that it is incredibly difficult. I do not know any parents who even as adults have never struggled with parenthood. Being the father of a child will also create great problems, having to pay child support (or supporting the children if you stay together), will be a large burden. I know of one friend who got pregnant at 15, she and her boyfriend stayed together, the guy dropped out and started trade work. Both are still happily together (although they do struggle in ways similar to most parents) recently their child has started school. Although this is an example where it went okay, this is the exception, not the norm.

Contracting a sexual disease unlike teen parenthood, will almost never be a good scenario. The best outcomes I know of that have come from teens catching STI's is that they have found religion and have found beliefs that keep them happy and passionate about life or is that that have gone on to teach others ways that can prevent it happening to them.

Prevention is always better than the cure. Education is the best form of prevention. If you care about the health and safety of your teen you should allow them to attend sex education.

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