Teen Pregnancy: It Can Be PreventedAccording to the Students Against Destructive Decisions website, there are more than 750,000 teen pregnancies per year. Teenage pregnancy is one of the most difficult issues facing teenage girls and their families today. Most teen pregnancies result in both people involved taking low-paying jobs, dropping out of school, and becoming increasingly stressed from then on. Schools offer sex education classes, but gear them entirely towards abstinence. During this decade, more and more children are becoming sexually active. Schools should teach comprehensive sex education because it can prevent teen pregnancies through both abstinence and birth control education. Advocated for Youth, a group aimed at helping young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health status. “Comprehensive sex education addresses both abstinence and age-appropriate, medically accurate information about contraception. Comprehensive sex education is also developmentally appropriate, introducing information about relationships, decision-making, assertiveness, and developing the skills needed to resist social/peer pressure, depending on grade level. This suggests that comprehensive sex education not only teaches actual contraception, birth control, and encourages abstinence, but that it teaches more to help any age cope with the likelihood of sexual activity and how to react and cope. There are several ways to approach comprehensive sex education. . One way to ensure that teenagers don't get pregnant is to teach abstinence. Abstinence is choosing not to have any type of sex. With abstinence, no barriers or pills are needed because the person is not sexually active. According to kids health.org "Abstinence is 100% effective in the middle of a paper...can use this information, but it's about how sex education is helpful and has been proven to works with adolescents. Source no. 5: from a Google search engine. Damn, Kevin. “Study indicates that teaching abstinence only in schools does not equate to less sex for students.” April 14, 2007. December 6, 2010..-I can use this article to quote my opponent and explain how teaching birth control is very effective in preventing teen pregnancies. Source #6: from a Google search engine [keywords: comprehensive sex education program] Van Dorn, Betsy. “Comprehensive sex education. » 2010. December 6, 2010. .-I can use this to learn more about comprehensive sex education and see the opposing sides for an opponent..