Some Florida students believe they do not receive sufficient sex education

A recent study from the University of North Florida's Brooke College of Health recently announced that teens in Baker County believe they do not receive adequate sex education, The Baker County Press reports.

Researchers found that teens from Baker County are 46 percent more likely to become pregnant than their peers from elsewhere in the state. As such, the Northeast Florida Healthy State Coalition's Teen Pregnancy Task Force created the Listening Tour, which surveys teens from around the area on pregnancy, sex education and birth control.

They added that it may be the parents' responsibility to provide education on sex with their teens. Unfortunately, most adolescents hear it from their peers rather than from adults, which could be misleading.

Many participants in the study said that some teachers rush through sex education classes. Course involved puberty, hygiene and abstinence, but lacked information about sexually transmitted diseases and gender specific education.

According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 409,840 infants were born to teens between ages 15 and 19 in 2009.