Teen Pregnancy: It Can Be Prevented According to the Students Against Destructive Decisions website there are more than 750,000 teen pregnancies per year. Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult issues facing teenagers and their families today. Most teenage pregnancies result in both parties involved taking up low-paying jobs, dropping out of school, and continuing to become more and more stressed from then on. Schools offer sex education courses, but they direct them fully towards abstinence. In this decade, many more children are becoming sexually active. Schools should teach comprehensive sex education because it can prevent teen pregnancy through both abstinence and teaching birth control. Advocated for Youth, a group that helps young people make informed, responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health status “Comprehensive sexuality education addresses both abstinence and age- and medically appropriate contraceptive information. Comprehensive sexuality education is also developmentally appropriate, introducing information about relationships, decision making, assertiveness, and developing skills to resist social and peer pressure, depending on grade level. This suggests that comprehensive sex education not only teaches actual contraception, birth control, and promotes abstinence, but teaches more to help any age deal 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 kind of sex. With abstinence, no barriers or pills are needed because the person is not sexually active. According to kidshealth.org “Abstinence is 100% effective in… half of the document… you can use this information, but it's about the usefulness of sex education and how it has been shown to work with teenagers. Source no. 5: from a search engine-Google. Damn it, Kevin. “Study indicates that teaching abstinence only in schools does not equal less sex for students.” April 14, 2007. December 6, 2010..-I can use this article to quote my opponent and how teaching birth control is very effective in preventing teen pregnancy.Source #. 6: from a search engine—Google [keywords: comprehensive sex education curriculum] Van Dorn, Betsy. “Comprehensive sexual education”. 2010. December 6, 2010. .-I can use it to learn more about comprehensive sex education and see the opposite sides of an naysayer.