Lack of sex education in schools“41% of adolescents aged between 18 and 19 say they know nothing about condoms and 75% say they know nothing about contraceptive pill" (Facts about American Teens). Even if schools taught abstinence-only, that wouldn't be enough. “In 2007, a study showed that abstinence-only programs have no beneficial impact on young people's sexual behavior” ( Facts on American Teens).Sex education is not taken as seriously as it should be in schools, it is treated as if it is no big deal.Schools should require a sex education course that specifically teaches students about sex and delve into all the possible consequences due to the high rate of pregnancies, miscarriages and viruses. Teenagers who have sex before getting married suffer from the possible consequences of sex. Teenagers who get pregnant suffer because they have to take care of a child at a young age they try to stay in school, or have to deal with dropping out of school and without a diploma or degree. So, the teenager's parents suffer because they have to help raise a child almost as if it were their own. The teenager's parents also have to teach their children how to raise the child because the teenager doesn't know what to do. People who contract a virus have to deal with the possibility of passing it on to others, including their children, and must always think about how they will have the virus for the rest of their lives because they have had sex with multiple people. The children of the person with the virus also suffer from having to live with the virus for the rest of their lives and then passing it on to their children as they get older. This chain reaction all starts with a lack of sex education in schools......half of paper......and fifty percent of it came from young adults ages 15 to 24 (CDC ). “Each year approximately nineteen million Americans contract a sexually transmitted infection and of those nineteen million, nine million of them are young adults between the ages of 15 and 24” (STD Statistics). We want statistics like these to go down and not stay the same or go up. They won't fall unless we do something about it. The more people who contract the virus, the greater the chance that our children will have sex with someone who has a virus and doesn't know it. If something doesn't change, there will be a domino effect that will pass viruses from generation to generation. It is the parents' job to want the best for their children, education, health and to know everything about everything that can drastically change their life. More sex education in schools could change the direction people's lives are going.