Why change the reproductive health education already offered in the schools?
The goal of reproductive health education is to promote young people’s health. Good sexuality education focuses on both factual information and skills development in setting goals, communicating about whether to have sex, negotiating abstinence or contraceptive use, and resisting peer pressure. In many schools, reproductive health education focuses only on anatomy and physiology or population and neglects the important role of family life or relationships in sexuality education. School programs can play an important role in educating young people about sexual health and decision making. Reproductive health education in schools helps young people before they start having sex, increasing their motivation to delay sexual intercourse and to use contraception consistently. Don’t condoms fail? Won’t telling teens they should use condoms give them a false sense of protection? When used consistently and correctly, latex condoms are extremely effective. Most condom failure results not because c
