'Forty percent of today's fourteen year old girls will become pregnant by the time they are nineteen' (qtd. in 'The Effects' 632). This statistic may indicate that the sex education programs in the United States are not controlling the effects of sex by teens. 'The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of developed countries' ('The Effects' 632). I believe that the people of this nation need to look at the current sex education programs and …showed first 75 words of 2264 total…

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