So children...Sex.

How do we teach a topic that we hardly talk about in our daily conversations. We already feel like it is a taboo topic. Sex means different things to different people, different religions, family cultures, regions, everything. This is one issue that the article entitled "Sex Ed in Washington" was talking about. It argued that the argument between whether we should teach sex education in terms of abstinence or contraception should not be brought to Washington because it needs to be fought over locally rather than nationally.  If sex education is going to be effective decisions about how to allocated money need to be made. A program that focuses on abstinence will work in some places and not in others. It cannot be said that teaching sex education in terms of abstinence hasn't worked because the amount of teenage pregnancy has improved during the implementation and use of this sex education however change is needed in locations in which it is known that simply saying that one should wait till marriage is not enough because most students will have sex before they are married.  A good point was brought up in the article entitled "How to End The War Over Sex Ed." In this article it is said that no matter what kind of education system is implemented social and cultural pressures outside of the classroom are what is going to be the deciding factor in if teenagers have sex or not, the show "teen mom" may dissuade kids from abstaining from sex or using a condom as well as sex education in school.