>>>>Your broad minded people solve the problem by simply ignoring it or closing their eyes.
>>>
>>>That is what you're doing on topics of
>>>- Gay marriage
>>>- Legalisation of soft drugs
>>>- Sexual education, abortions
>>>
>>>I can't help you're blinded by the hatred against me, it does not make you right.
>>
>>I think it is the other way around. You hate America and I take it very personally. You like to throw unfair accusations. Let's take one of the items on your list above: Sexual education, abortions. American schools have great deal of sexual education (too much, if you ask me). And abortions are legal. What else do you want?
>
>Again, what the huh? American schools teach abstinence, if they teach anything beyond "this is the parts of your body" and in some parts of the county - abortions are legal in name only.

In depends on the state.

Until Bush Jr became president, there was much more sex education in our schools. While each state is different (it is up to the states to decide and in some cases it is decided at the municpal level), some states only teach abstinence (like North Carolina and the result was an explosion of teen pregnancies) and others teach much much more. Whether a state teaches more than abstinence or not, usually depends on how much federal dollars they want.

From 2006:

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_sexEd2006.html


Sex Education Policy
• Currently, 35 states mandate either sex education or education about HIV/AIDS and other STIs, but their laws tend to be very general. Policies specifying the content of sex education are typically set at the local level.[21]

• More than two out of three public school districts have a policy to teach sex education. The remaining one-third of districts leave policy decisions up to individual schools or teachers.[22]

• Eighty-six percent of the public school districts that have a policy to teach sex education require that abstinence be promoted. Some 35% require abstinence to be taught as the only option for unmarried people and either prohibit the discussion of contraception altogether or limit discussion to its ineffectiveness. The other 51% have a policy to teach abstinence as the preferred option for teens and permit discussion of contraception as an effective means of preventing pregnancy and STIs.[23]

• More than half of the districts in the South with a policy to teach sex education have an abstinence-only policy, compared with one in five of such districts in the Northeast.[24]


Government Support of Abstinence-Only Education

• There are three federal programs dedicated to funding restrictive abstinence-only education: Section 510 of the Social Security Act, the Adolescent Family Life Act’s teen pregnancy prevention component and Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE). The total funding for these programs is $176 million for FY 2006.[25]

• Federal law establishes a stringent eight-point definition of “abstinence-only education” that requires programs to teach that sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong and harmful—for people of any age. The law also prohibits programs from advocating contraceptive use or discussing contraceptive methods except to emphasize their failure rates.[26]

• Federal guidelines now define sexual activity to include any behavior between two people that may be sexually stimulating, which could be interpreted as including even kissing or hand-holding.[27]

• New federal restrictions have been expanded to target adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 29.[28]

• There is currently no federal program dedicated to supporting comprehensive sex education that teaches young people about both abstinence and contraception.[29]

• Despite years of evaluation in this area, there is no evidence to date that abstinence-only education delays teen sexual activity. Moreover, recent research shows that abstinence-only strategies may deter contraceptive use among sexually active teens, increasing their risk of unintended pregnancy and STIs.[30]

• Evidence shows that comprehensive sex education programs that provide information about both abstinence and contraception can help delay the onset of sexual activity among teens, reduce their number of sexual partners and increase contraceptive use when they become sexually active. These findings were underscored in “Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior,” issued by former Surgeon General David Satcher in June 2001.[31]