about Sexual Education...

One of the many problems in the debate over abortion is the fact people get pregnant in the first place. many talk about birth control, but what of personal responsibility and understanding of sex, pregnancy, and child birth in general? What about the sexual education taught to our children in school, or the lack thereof?

Many beleive that teaching children abstiance is the way, the only way, and everything else is playing dice with chemicals. Others say that properly educated children informed for not only abstianace, but also personal responsibility, contriceptives, and understanding of the remifications of sexual behavior would provide a better well rounded understanding and ability to choose their own sexual path.

what do you think about how children should be taught? at what age? in the school or in the home? and what should sex be taught as? As a negative -something to steer clear of and avoided till 'grown up'- or a positive -something wonderful, natural, but not without its ups, downs, and risks?

"Really? Worse things to be than non-libertarian? Well, I guess this is true.  However, as soon as you start giving justifications to government programs based on 'the common good', the 'public good' or any of these type of rationales, you are approaching a dangerous borderline, and statism lies on the other side." Reality is cumulative and probabilistic. And past experiences has shown humanity that abstinence-only and lack of good sex-ed is bad. So until a culture that is ready to take up the burden of giving kids a good basis of knowledge coalesces, government is justified.
"Sex-ed really has nothing to do with this, and thus should be kept out of public education, and left where it belongs:  private education." Society will suffer by a lack of good sex-ed, since there will be more unwanted pregnancies, more STDs et al. Sex is the basis of human behavior, for Garm's sake. Also, in a laissez-faire state consumer knowledge is just as importnant as voting. So we should teach consumers to spend their money very carefully and appropriately, by the same maxim.
"Sex-ed does not benefit the entire population, it benefits individuals who don't know how to take care of themselves, and comes at the expense of everyone, including those who don't need it individually, yet are still forced to pay for it against their will." It is very difficult to quantify the utilitarian justification of policy decisions. So we look at causation to see some patterns in the froth of uncertainty that is existence. And a lack of sex-ed is not attractive under current circumstances.