Data Indicate Sex Education In US Schools Is Ineffective.

analysis reports that while recent statistics from the CDC show that “teen pregnancy rates have dropped” to a “record low of 26.5 per 1,000 women” in 2013, they also demonstrate that “the US teen pregnancy rate is substantially higher than in other industrialized nations.” Moreover, about “one in five ‘sexually experienced’ teens have ever been tested for HIV,” and “nearly half of the 20 million new sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) contracted each year are among young people ages 15 to 24.” Citing the CDC’s data, USA Today examines why “sex education in US [is] schools so ineffective.” http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/10/06/sex-education-zimmerman-book/73453030/