Teen Awareness

Teen pregnancy has been a major controversy in the United States for some time and according to resent studies, the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the western industrialized world. Now I know there is sex education in schools, I've taken the course, but are they doing enough to get the point across. Some thirty-four percent of women get pregnant before the age of twenty, or basically during or right after high school. Is it the lack of commitment by the teacher or is it this new badass attitude found in high schools. Maybe what the educator should do is scare the fear of not only teen pregnancy but STDs by visual aid's. Not the pictures which have only managed often times to make young adults laugh but real life people living with these real life situations. After asking a fellow student what he thought about the situation he stated that information alone is not enough, they need to develop their habits by seeing, touching and experiencing. There is also the possibility that no matter what age and how often an educator pounds the facts of STDs and teen pregnancy in young adults skulls, they are still going to behave like they want with disregard to consequence. Should we have sex eduction in schools, why of course, then at least that way the kid knows what he or she is getting themselves into and they can't blame anyone but themselves. Take the responsibility of your own actions.