Sex Education Or Separation?

 I was asked by a Filipino student to pose several questions for him to use in a school debate. He was to take the stance that the separation of the two sexes would not help curb teenage pregnancies in the Philippines. Of course, the total segregation of males from females would stop teenage pregnancies but at what cost is the real question that needs to be answered here. Here are my questions. So, you believe that gender separation would be the most effective way in helping to curb teenage pregnancies in the Philippines? If so, then you must want to do away with the co-educational system so that in theory males and females would have less contact with one another and therefore less likelihood of having sex, and producing teenage pregnancies. Where would this separation policy end? Would you segregate the sexes in cinemas too? Don’t you think that gender separation would only contribute to an unhealthy social environment where the gap of gender equality would only widen, not narrow? Haven’t we strived to promote and instill gender equality in the classroom, workplace and in the community, and you want to divide the community even further with a gender separation policy to curb teenage pregnancies. Wouldn’t it be far healthier socially and a better solution for all to curb unwanted teenage pregnancies through compulsory sex education programs where both male and female teenagers are taught about the dangers, pitfalls and financial hardships associated with teenage pregnancies? Don’t you think the slogan Educate, Don't Separate is the catch cry we all need to hear in curbing teenage pregnancies? Jens Ward, Wardswords