Thus, sexual education programs encourage teenagers to practice immoral sexual behavior that they have learned from these programs. Since the Norplant for Consenting Teenagers program requires sexual education and counseling, it is subject to this objection.

Underlying the morality objection is the assumption that sexual education programs introduce students to various sexual behaviors and this encourages students to become sexually active. There is no evidence for this assumption. In fact, there is evidence that sexual education programs encourage students to abstain from sex. A study in Atlanta revealed that students enrolled in a sex education program are significantly more likely to postpone sexual intercourse through to the end of ninth grade than non-program students.  Likewise, a study of over a thousand students showed that males who participated in a sexual education program are less likely to have sexual intercourse than non-participating students. If parents want their children to abstain from sexual activity, they should be promoting sex education instead of protesting it.

Ideally it would best if parents would teach their children the health and moral issues involved with sexual behavior. The problem with letting parents have total responsibility of their child’s sexual education is that parents are not doing it. Only 18% of males and 32% of females in the United States first learn about sex from their parents. Further, research suggests that there is a great difference between what information parents think they have conveyed about sex-related topics and what the teenagers think they heard from their parents. Sexual education programs teaching about what type of birth control to use offer reliable sources for teenagers to learn about sexual issues and these programs act as safety nets to guarantee that teenagers have access to important sex-related information so that they can act more responsibly.