Sex education must be taught in our school to inform and teach sexual safety. If you were to ask a student: "how are babies made", the answer would be sex, but is it really true or is there much more behind it. There is so much more that our high school students need to learn about sexual activity. If sex education were taught it could prevent teenage pregnancies, disease and safety. Even though some parents don't want children to be taught about sex at their age, we can inform them about what we are teaching and perhaps convince them to accept it. In the United States, only a few states allow schools to teach sex education. Only 22 states in America that are public schools teach sex education. Only 33 states require students to receive HIV/AIDS education. In our state (California) we do not require sex education. be taught. If a state doesn't require sex education to be taught, meaning a school can't teach it, it just has to follow the guidelines. Sex education can be taught in primary and secondary schools, but why isn't it taught to us? Because they were asked to learn about HIV/AIDS but not about sex education. Our students need to be educated. My personal thought is that if sex education was taught we could reduce the chances of pregnancy. Every year, nearly 750,000 American women between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant. This is approximately 7% or 68:1,000 women each year. 3 out of 10 girls will become pregnant before their 20th birthday. After the age of 15, pregnancies are more common, so it will be a good age to teach sex education. 82% of teen pregnancies are unplanned, and for every 5 teen pregnancies, one was planned. If we don't start teaching our students about sex, the numbers will increase. Only 59% of pregnancies between the ages of 15 and 19 end... in the middle of the paper... of the sexually active population. These numbers will decrease if sex ed. it would teach our children the safe way to do it. It doesn't matter what teenagers will have sex with, it's human nature, but what will we do to protect them from having safe sex. Sex education is seen as a bad topic, but if teens are taught about their bodies in a specific way, how can that be a bad thing? I am all for sex education and it should be taught in all of our schools in America. Work Cited Diller, Rita. "Sex education: why it is wrong". League of American Life. www.all.org. American Life League, Jan. 8, 2010. Web. Jan. 28, 2014. Youth Advocates. All rights reserved, 2008. www.advocatesforyouth.org. February 13, 2014 “Facts about the sexual and reproductive health of American adolescents.” Guttmacher Institute. 1996-2014. www.guttmacher.org. February 18, 2014