Posted on 10/27/2010 11:59:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Over the past decade, politicians have battled about how to reduce the teen pregnancy rate: safe-sex vs. abstinence-only sex education programs, even as films such as "Juno" and births by famous teens such as Bristol Palin and Jamie Lynn Spears seemed to make adolescent pregnancies more socially acceptable.
At the same time, after declining for years, the teen pregnancy rate increased, but the pace at which teens were having babies appeared to stop falling or even inch up.
Now, the Obama administration has entered the politically sensitive debate, promising to put scientific evidence before political ideology. A $110 million campaign will support a range of programs, including those that teach about the risks of specific sexual activities and the benefits of contraception and others that focus primarily on encouraging teens to delay sex.
The initiative exemplifies the administration's oft-repeated quest to find new strategies to defuse some of the nation's most divisive issues. In this case, officials are hoping to appease advocates of teaching teens about condoms and other forms of birth control as well as those who oppose sex outside marriage.
Although the program is being hailed by many adolescent health experts, it is being denounced by some on both sides of the abstinence debate.
"This is one of those emotionally charged issues where it's very difficult to find compromise," said Amy E. Black, a political scientist at Wheaton College in Illinois. "It inevitably becomes entangled in a larger constellation of issues, such as abortion, that raise ideological, moral and religious questions."
During the George W. Bush administration, the federal government spent $1.5 billion on programs that encouraged teens to delay sex until marriage. Critics said it was grounded in religious tenets and conservative doctrine, failed to educate teens about condoms in the age of HIV and other...
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So I guess we are going back to the Clinton years of anything but standard sex as than you can’t get pregnant.
This out-of-touch President Bummer is the worst pox and curse the Democrats could have.
I think we got the shaft!!!
Everything but jobs! That is it Zero! Can we impeach him now?
My hope is in the One who will bring about change ...
PSALM 37
12 The wicked plot against the righteous
and gnash their teeth at them;
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he knows their day is coming.
14 The wicked draw the sword
and bend the bow
to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose ways are upright.
15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts,
and their bows will be broken.
16 Better the little that the righteous have
than the wealth of many wicked;
17 for the power of the wicked will be broken,
but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Ever since they put sex education into the schools, promiscuity and perversion were dramatically increased. (It was intentional to destroy families and Christianity).
They break down kids modesty, peak their interest in a topic that used to be ignored until puberty, when very few people had sex outside of marriage and few out of wedlock births. Media used to NOT glorify dysfunction and make it seem cool and neat.
Schools make sex into some worthless commodity—they take all the beauty and mystery out of it and make it into nothing special...something that if it feels good, do it—experiment to see what is right for you! They vulgarized it. They take God out of the school to kill morality and put moral relativism in, which means everything is good—wink, wink.
Don’t allow sex education in your schools....it is a promotion for sexual promiscuity and perversion and to break down modesty and respect of the opposite sex.
Actually, I would NEVER have my child in a public school any more.
Another sop to the sex-ed “consulting” industry, a horde of depraved Democrats who take nice sounding ideas and turn the actual teaching sessions into rave parties for lunatics.
IT’S A BIG TRAP.... GOP!
CALM DOWN! STAY ON THE MESSAGE!
DON’T REACT AFTER NOVEMBER 2!
If Christians, Jews and other morally upright people would all take their children out of public schools it would collapse the system in no time.
Amen!
why announce it now? It must be that the ‘Rats and MSM are hoping to provoke heated criticism in the next few days that will (they hope) change the topic of this election to “stand up to the religious right” etc.
it is a transparent attempt to provoke a sense of crisis among the secular left and their propagandistic media allies
Must be afraid that not enough anti-Constitutionalists are, like, actually having children (”Eeeww, chiiiillldrrreeen”) to be raised as intolerant, selfish, greedy-for-others-earnings “liberals”
It's a trap, Republicans. It's a trap, it's a trap it's a trap
Never have I seen such evil merged with such stupidity. It really is stunning.
Beautiful, thank you!
Why now? They’ve already screwed us.......
This subject is off-limits for the fed govt.
I would think the increase in teen pregnancies has much to do with an increase in teen Latinas; the elephant in the corner.
They are displacing blacks in many urban areas (and the workplace, and prison), and this has a lot to do with it.
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