When Wendy Pfrenger’s children started high school in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, she had the choice to enroll them in abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex ed.
Although the abstinence-plus option would include instruction on contraception, neither curriculum was required to provide medically accurate information. As a parent, she felt like the lessons her teens were receiving fell short of their reality.
“Our kids are on the internet, their peers are on the internet,” she said. “The things that are being shared on phones in that school, regardless of whatever protections are in place, are not at all addressed by the class.”
