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The rapid increase of early and unwanted pregnancy , abortion and other figures of sex exploitation have triggered the government leaders to come up on sex education program especially those in developed countries . This notion is introduced to minimize these alarming cases To eliminate these chaoses , it is good to point the audience of these problems , the victims , before identifying which method to use in sex education

On the article emphasized in HYPERLINK "http /www .avert .org www .avert .org , that the audience for sex education are those young people who are

nearly reach puberty stage and before they have developed established patterns of behavior and the particular age at which information should be provided is depending on the physical , emotional and intellectual development of the young people as well as their level of understanding . So , these audiences are in the level of mid high school and the discussions must fit to their context

But what should be the method to follow in attaining correct solution This is a good insight to point out . Knowing the roots of early pregnancy and abortion are enough bases to identify the context- to know the cause of the cause of the thing caused . Is the problem attainable considering the right choice of method in sex education

It is quite contrary that in spite of government 's effort about sex education , United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any developed country . It is even twice as high as England , France Canada three times as high as Sweden and four times as high as The Netherlands 4 HYPERLINK "http /www .teenshelter .org /data .htm http /www .teenshelter .org /data .htm . And these results seem a challenge to the government and the people on to what context they are going to figure out

Abstinence-plus and abstinence-only methods are the controversial issues in America . All are pro to sex education but they clashes on to which one is right . Do Americans make the right choice

In 2004 poll -National Public Radio , 93 of Americans support the teaching of sex education in schools . 82 of those surveyed believe that sex education should take on one of two comprehensive forms : either abstinence-plus ' or abstinence only

Abstinence-plus is the context of sex education which privileges abstinence but corporate other means of birth control and disease prevention while the abstinence-only prohibits any method but instead it teaches responsible decision-making (The Henry J . Kaiser Family Foundation , and Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government-www .pfaw .org

Realistically , abstinence-plus is more attainable when the target of the problem is to reduce the cases mentioned and taking into account the behavior of adolescents , audiences of the program , are aggressive and curious . There access to information and temptation is always there . The Internet for example , many pornographies pop-up on screen even it is not searched and their curiosity triggers them to look on it and tendency it influences them to engaged on sexual activities . Even the cyberspace communication , most audiences are teenagers . They explore...

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