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Birds and Bees

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Birds and Bees

Published: Wed, 4 Mar 2009

Description: Critics calling for changes in way schools handle sex education

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" The birds and the -- most parents have moved past that description but."

" What should you tell your youngsters about sex."

" In tonight's America's future report correspondent Marianne Silber looks at how many people are now calling for some changes in the way schools handles sex education."

" In North Carolina most students are taught in schools that sex should wait until marriage. They're not talk about contraception. When you ask this seventeen year old she doesn't mince words. We're caught everything else from US history that psychology but we miss out on important things such as sex Ed and -- right now there's a move by state lawmakers to give parents a choice between abstinence only and prevention this legislation and I think. Takes the politics out of it. And returns -- issued to parents it's debate that gained national attention when former vice presidential candidate Alaska Republican Governor Sarah Palin. Announced her seventeen year old daughter was expecting. Bristol Palin says simply telling kids to wait isn't realistic. Hope that. People and from my story and just like. I don't prevent teen pregnancy I guess 25 states -- date abstinence be taught in public schools. Of those seven are in the top ten for teen pregnancy. North Carolina ranks ninth out of 115 school districts in North Carolina all but ten offer abstinence until marriage only. If they want to offer a more comprehensive approach it can often be difficult time consuming and controversial. It's school boards want to add pregnancy in STV prevention education they must inform parents and vote on -- Emily Perino says most boards -- politics and stick to abstinence only."

" Students and do not necessarily understand how they could get a sexually transmitted infection. They do not understand how to prevent pregnancy and -- understand options out there."

" But those who support -- except laws say changing -- encourages risky behavior."

" Wow what we say on one hand. Don't drink don't smoke don't do drugs but on the other hand we're gonna say hey if you're -- when we're talking about sex. We're gonna say don't do it but if you're going to we're going to teach you all about it."

" Proponents of the bill expected to pass this summer -- bipartisan support. In Raleigh, North Carolina Marianne Silber Fox News."

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