My 8th grade daughter came home yesterday and told me about her ‘sex education class’ at public school.
The following is what our 13-14 year olds are being taught about sex in school.
One half of all new HIV infections are among 15-19 year olds.
One in four teens have an STD.
One in two cases of STD’s are [...]
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Sex Education in Public School
Posted in Education, Family, Health, Life Skills, Moms, Parenting, tagged abstinence, Add new tag, birth control, dating, gonorrhea, HIV, HPV, Sex, Sex Education, STD's, syphilis, teens on April 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Protecting Our Teens From STD’s
Posted in Current Events, Education, Family, Health, Political, tagged "Sex Has A Price Tag", abortion, abstinence, AIDS, American Academy of Pediatrics, cancer, CDC, Center for Disease Control, Herpes, HIV, hormones, HPV, Pam Stenzel, PID, pre-marital sex, purity pledge, purity ring, sexually transmitted disease, teens, vaccine, warts on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A study from the Center for Disease Control found that at least one out of four teenage girls aged 14 to 19 has a sexually transmitted disease in the US.
One sexual encounter (which also can be just oral and genital contact) and you have a 40% chance of contracting HPV (Human Paploma Virus) which is [...]
