WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Kaiser Family Foundation released Sex Education in America: A View from Inside the Nation’s Classrooms, an in-depth report based on a series of national surveys with more than 4,000 public secondary school students and their parents, sex education teachers, and principals abut their experiences and attitudes toward sex education.

According to the Foundation, “What comes across in this study is that parents look tot he schools to prepare children for real life. Their concerns are practical, not political"

What do parents want sex education programs to do?

85% teach how to use condoms
84% teach how to use other forms of birth control
94% address real life issues such as pressures to have sex and the emotional consequences of having sex
76% discuss sexual orientation
74% discuss abortion