High schools should teach sex education. Sexual diseases, unwanted pregnancies and abortions could be avoided if adolescents had appropriate information. Some parents don't know how to talk to their children about sexuality or are simply too shy to do so. Other parents don't even have the right information because their own parents haven't told them about the sexual ether. Many cultures don't allow children to talk or ask questions of a sexual nature until they get married, and sometimes even after that, talking to your parents about sexuality is considered disrespectful. As a result, the number of young couples continues to increase, more and more unwanted babies are put up for adoption, and hospitals continue to report more and more people with STDs and AIDS. Sex education should be available to all of our high school students for their own protection. Plus, the more we talk about the subject, the more children become interested in it. If we do not allow our future generations to have adequate education about the consequences of sexual activity, they will look for other ways to get information or simply do things carelessly. For example, my mother never talks to me about sex! But I grew up in another country where we had this type of class. Without all the information they gave me, I was probably just one more teen mom. At the time, many classmates were already quite sexually active and their parents didn't even have a clue. It is impossible to avoid the subject or even try to hide something that is simply part of our nature as human beings. Not only do our hormone levels increase as we reach puberty, but our bodies also undergo dramatic changes that we can't hide. We... middle of paper ... children know other ways to prevent pregnancy other than abstinence because they don't want their teenage girls to have sex before marriage because of their religion and their beliefs. Yet all these ideas about hiding sexual information from high school students don't stop them from having sex. Statistics show that the average age of an adult when they have sex for the first time is as young as 12! Additionally, the number of people with AIDS and STDs continues to rise, abortion clinics and adoption agencies continue to grow, and adolescents are still becoming young parents; therefore, not having access to sex education is not the solution. Avoiding our children or preventing them from accessing sex education is like sending them into a battlefield without the proper weapons. It is essential to have this type of teaching in high schools.