So i found a pretty good article on sexual education in adolescents aged 15 to 19, it has some great statistics.
If you go onto Google Scholar it's titled Changes in Formal Sex Education 1995-2002. Its not too long of an article to get through but here's a basic summary and some key stat's i pulled out when reading it.
This article focused mainly on the trends between sexual education in school and various places between 1995 and 2002. They surveyed and interviewed mostly adolescent’s aged 15 to 19. The article shows that there has been a decrease in sexual education in birth control between 1995 and 2002 and more of a focus on abstinence.
I pulled out some interesting facts that we may want to look at. Im not sure if this is still the direction we would like to go but it has some great evidence in trends of sex education in schools.
- Sex education is being increasingly replaced by abstinence-only education
- In 1999. 23% of secondary school sex education teacher taught abstinence as the only way to prevent pregnancy and STD’s. only 2% had done so in 1988.
- In 1999, one quarter of sex education said prohibited from teaching about contraception
- Ages 15-19
- The content and prevalence of formal sex education shifted away from birth control instruction between 1995 and 2002
- Significant difference in gender receiving instruction à 81% to 66% in males and 87% to 70% in females
- By 2002 both male and female teenagers were significantly more likely to receive instruction on how to say no to sex than birth control methods
- Difference between genders, socioeconomic status
- By 2002, males had received abstinence education two years earlier than birth control instruction
- Older teenagers were less likely to have received birth control education in 2002 than 1995
- In 1995 80% of males obtained instruction of birth control by 16 and only 67% in 2002 by the age of 18.
- 90% of females obtained education by 18 in 1995, compared to 71% in 2002
- significant differences by race or ethnicity and poverty status in birth control instruction prior to first intercourse
- 2% of sex education teachers in 1988 taught abstinence only, but 23% did so in 1998
Lexie
Great job Lexie,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a really good article for general sex education stats which might help us out if we have a brief section on that. Last tutorial we had discussed narrowing our focus to matters around sexual orientation in sexual education. (I know you away and we hadn't sent out an e-mail, or posted it on the blog.. sorry about that!)
There are definitely still some things from this article that we can use though, so thank you!
Good work Lexie!
ReplyDeleteThese stats are very interesting, and really show how sexual education changes so rapidly (only seven years!). Though I think this is partially influenced by the social constuction of sexuality in a particular area, and how culturally flexible/dynamic that place is. Hopefully, today we can discuss which geographical population we should target (perhaps Kingston or Ontario?).
Also, the article shows that there have been both positive and negative changes within the sexual education system (kind of like the in-class point about non-linear sexual history). I think we will have to be careful because we are using a timeline framework, but still have to demonstrate how changes regarding sexual orientation in sexual education are not exactly linear or entirely positive/negative.
Hey Guys,
ReplyDeleteFirst off, here is the bride napping (borat) thing, if you have a chance to look at it's worth a minute or two: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/asia/100721/bride-kidnapping-kyrgyzstan
it sort of relates to what we talked about in class today, with the whole marriages throughout cultures, and traditions.
Thanks for doing the stats, Lexi.
There's defiantly something wrong with "the system", as the stats show not a lot teens now have proper sex ed. They look like a good jump point to start our project. I think from there, we should maybe look at WHAT the kids who are actually learning, and the context.
Sex ed should be not only modernized but wide spread. (Which is what we're talking about RIGHT NOW!).