Friday 15 April 2011

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Public opinion on sex education in US schools
HIV infection and AIDs had increased by 10% from year 2000 to 2003 in The United States of America. Hence, sexual education programs are implemented, but however sparks some debate the effectiveness and the choice of appropriateness of sex education. Teenagers and young adults, aged between 15 to 24 years of age were 25% of the sexually active population in US. Therefore, this study is carried out to obtain the public’s opinion regarding sex education in school.
To determine the public’s opinion on sex education, participants were randomly selected, aged between 18 to 83 years old to represent the publics population. Total participants who took the cross-sectional survey was 1096. Respondents were asked about their beliefs or expectations about the educational efficacy of different sex education approaches. Their answers were self-reported and measured on a 7-point scale from “extremely liberal” to “extremely conservative”.
The results of this study shows that 82% of the public supports the program that teaches student using the combination of abstinence and other methods in preventing premarital pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD). Meanwhile, 68.5% supports the teaching on using a condom properly. 36% of the population believes that abstinence only programs works fine and 50% of US citizens supports all the three approaches.(Bleakleym Hennessy, Fishbein)

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