Sex education is imperative and necessary, but most adolescents finish sex education classes with a poor view of sexuality and without good basic knowledge of contraception or safe sex practices. Instead, teenagers are only taught that they should not have sex until they are married. Abstinence-only programs in public schools have become popular thanks to millions of dollars in government funding to schools that teach these programs. These programs have the good intentions of convincing young people to wait until marriage before becoming intimate, but do not fully achieve this goal and are inconsistent by the one-sided point of view they defend. In 1996, the United States government began providing special funding to states that offered abstinence-only programs in public schools. Since then, countless amounts of taxpayer money have flowed to states to promote abstinence-only programs (Brody, 2004). To receive the funds, schools must agree to follow a certain set of guidelines. These rules state that the abstinence-only school curriculum must have the exclusive goal of teaching the social, psychological, and health benefits of sexual abstinence. Students are taught that they may suffer adverse effects if they choose to deflower themselves before marriage and that the norm is that students do not engage in sexual activity and that adults only have sex when they are married (Impacts, 2007). The schools that receive these government funds only teach students to “say no” to sex until they are married, but this concept is so far-fetched because we live in an imperfect society. Some states like Ohio, New York and Virginia have refused federal authorization. funds for their schools to determine their own ways of teaching...... middle of paper ...... will contract sexual diseases because they engage in oral and anal sex. In the minds of most teenagers, if not at all. being physically penetrated, they did nothing wrong or harmful. Parents and guardians should be the primary instructors of their children's sex education. Honest and open communication between parents and children throughout childhood, preteens, teens, and young adults can help young people. The main goal of sex education in schools should be to help and encourage young people to build a foundation as they become sexually healthy adults. These programs should help young people understand a positive view of sexuality. , provide them with information and skills to take care of themselves and push them to make decisions to solve current and future problems.