Most Americans think sex education should support abstinence, encouraging youths to wait for sex rather than just encouraging use of contraception.
As part of a study by research group Barna on American education, the research published Tuesday found some predicatable generational divides on approaches to sex, but most adults, including millennials, still back an approach to sex education that encourages waiting for sex.
Most US adults (71 per cent) said the primary message of sex education should be ‘one that uses practical skills to reinforce waiting for sex’, while 29 per cent said it should be ‘one that says teen sex is OK, so long as they use contraception’. Among the surveyed generations millennials were the most supportive of the latter response (43 per cent), but most (57 per cent) supported waiting for sex.
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