Blog #2

“At the same time that we allow our children to be sexualized, we refuse to educate them about sex. The United States is the only developed nation in the world that doesnʼt teach sex education in the schools. And our children pay a very high price – we have the highest rates of teen pregnancy and the highest rates of sexually transmitted illnesses by far in the developed world."”

I agree with the above for many reasons. If we started teaching our kids about sex and sexual transmitted diseases at an earlier age then the rates would go down. Teenagers would have a better feel about sex, and know how to stay protected bristol-palin-candies-foundation-teen-pregnancy-baby-psa-590khz4710.jpg . This ad stood out to me because it is true. Over thousands of Teenage girls each year get Pregnant at a young age. If our schools taught kids about sex maybe there wouldn't be as many teen pregnancies. There would be no downfall in teaching our kids about sexual diseases , it would be the right thing to do.