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Yeah abstinence makes the heart grow fonder. The right kind of boy will jump through hoops for ya. |
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At best teaching sex ed leads to students espousing the assumption that condoms and birth control
are failproof.
Abstainance education may not work, but sex education isn't really all that necessary either when
the same information is easily accesible on the Internet. |
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And what makes anyone think teenagers are going to listen to people who preach abstinence anymore
than they do those who teach safe sex? |
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Here's the deal: If someone offers their sexual-health information voluntarily? Then they probably
do not have any diseases nor a promiscuous-resume.........probably.
No harm in offering that information beforehand. Full-disclosure. |
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That's because abstinence education simply doesn't work, it's been proven in studies over and over
and over. While abstinence education might put off the initial sexual act, once that's done,
formerly-abstinent students will usually have more risky and excessive sex and will catch up or
surpass those students who have been having safe sex all along, but they won't do it using any form
of birth control or prevention. This results in more unwanted pregnancies and more STD
transmission.
In the end, the abstinence-only advocates are only shooting themselves in the foot. They wish
reality wasn't the way it is and they harm more people than they help by insisting that we should
pretend. |
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Here's the actual report on the Bush administrations ramped up funding of abstinence education.
Failure: Http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/impactabstinence.pdf |
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Even if your numbers are true, they don't prove the point you make. Those who apply common sense
know that there is a very simple way to see what works, we don't look at the national picture, but
the schemes themselves. We can compare children who enter abstinence schemes to nationally average
children and we discover that they are less, not more safe than average. As such, I fault abstinence
education, it's common sense. When something doesn't achieve the goals it aims for and is in fact
counter-productive I say that program isn't working. |
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I don't know where you got that figure but it is either a mistake or a misrepresentation. From 1996
to 2006 over 1 billion dollars in federal funding was used as an incentive towards title V sex ed.
Classes. To qualify for the initiative only allowed mention of birth control measures is to
emphasize their failure rates. For the first 5 years every state but California participated in the
initiative. About 1 out of 10 Americans live in California perhaps it is one of those accidental
misquotes and they really meant the exact opposite of what you said. Even now 25 states participate.
And since states started opting out new funds have been raised to provide funds on an individual
school by school basis meaning that even in those states that aren’t involved on a whole state
have a lot of schools still getting abstinence only dollars. |
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02 Sep 2009 21:40
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