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A parent's responsibilities are to ensure that they are providing shelter, food, clothing, medical needs, and in this country, a fair and reasonable education. A lack in any one of these requirements constitutes neglect. While one can only hope a good moral foundation regarding sexual intimacies would begin at home, often such is not the case.

There are many reasons fueling a parent's decision not to cover basic sex education in the home, and they range anywhere from unease in speaking openly to one's one child about the specifics of sex; to giving up in a state of embarrassment as the child begins to giggle uncontrollably because you said 'penis' or 'vagina'; to assuming that television has already covered the basics so there isn't really a need. You can't assume all parents make this conversation a critical must on their family discussion night.

With this being said, there is no better place to teach adequate sex education than from the same people who are trusted to teach children all the other skills necessary to live an enriching, fulfilling, reasonably educated adulthood.

Sex education not only encompasses the basic motions (for lack of a better word), it also touches on birth control, the success/failure rates of the various methods available, the female cycle and when the most detrimental time to be sure maximum effectiveness of birth control is achieved, pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and the basic anatomy of both males and females.

To further state the argument, condoms are handed out at high schools nationwide, and for the most part, people tend to approve of that. It would be awkward for a teen to attempt to don an item given by the school without the knowledge of how, why and when to depend on them.

In a perfect world, parents would step up to the plate and teach all things moral to their children, and the burden shouldn't fall on the school system to pick up the slack. But since one person's idea of responsibility isn't etched in stone as law, there should be an alternative to carry the burden when there is no other recourse. By the time a teen heads to college, statistics show that the majority have already engaged in sexual activities. It's too late to start a discussion then unless you have the notion that they might be able to teach us all a thing or two.

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