Studies from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention have shown that there is a link between high school students who do not have sex and who are more aware and protective when it comes to alcohol and using condoms with having good grades. Also studies from the sociologist at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Minnesota show that students who are having sex in romantic relationships are also showing the same characteristics of having good grades as the ones who are abstinent or celibate.
This goes to show how it is better to abstain from sex before marriage because most people are in their college years or getting ready to start their career when they are considering marriage. By this time the adult is mature enough to start a life with someone else, settle down, and handle the emotions that come along with having sex for the most part. If 69% of the students are sexually active and have the D's and F's, then this is a problem. If sexual activity is affecting the education of these kids, something should be done to try to convince them that it is better to wait, and get their life together first.
The fact that sex between a romantic relationship also shows the same statistics as does the students who are celibate show that they are serious with each other and most likely plan on marrying in the future. I am not saying that it is okay to have sex if the two partners are serious about each other and planning on spending their lives together, but I am saying that the reason they show these characteristics are because they share characteristics with married couples. They are not sleeping around with multiple partners and engaging in a bunch of premarital sex with random people creating emotional disruptions in their lives. I still do not condone premarital sex, and I agree with the article's statistics that abstinence and celibacy does cause students of all ages to have higher performance in school because it gives them less disturbances to worry about.
The author's purpose for this article is to convince the reader that smarter kids do not engage in sexual active as much as those who get lower grades. The author tries not to be biased by adding these lines stated by Nancy Brener who is a health scientist at the C.D.C, "We don’t know whether students get good grades because they’re not
engaging in risk behaviors,”. The author establishes his ethos by using the information from the Center For Disease Control and Prevention and from the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Davis. The article is also credible just because it is found in the NY Times which is known to deliver true facts because of how prestigious it is. Just the fact that studies show that better educational performance is done by those who are abstinent or celibate should convince teenagers to focus on what is important, which is school not sex.
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