Posted on 07/12/2009 9:52:24 PM PDT by Publius772000
So you want nationalized health care, eh? If you needed more proof of the typical idiocy of bureaucratic medical bungling, look no further than the newest pamphlet produced by the NHS and aimed at teens.
The brochure, titled “Pleasure,” recommends to school children that they not focus on loving relationships or safe sex, but strictly on the health benefits of sex, as if teens needed another excuse to engage in an adult lifestyle. In the same section of the pamphlet that advises children to be attentive to their eating habits, it includes the following:
Health promotion experts advocate five portions of fruit and veg a day and 30 minutes physical activity three times a week. What about sex or masturbation twice a week?
Not surprisingly, the same government organization that recommended such activity has failed miserably in curbing teen pregnancy. A study in England has recently been released that indicates that girls who participated in the government’s $9.7 million pregnancy reduction initiative–a program which “educated” kids in safe sex and distributed condoms–were twice as likely to become pregnant as girls who did not participate. Britain’s teen pregnancy rate is the highest in Western Europe, and half of all teen pregnancies in England end in abortion.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail Online, the “orgasm a day” program’s apparatchik, Steve Slack, defended the pamphlet, claiming that it will, in fact, help children to delay sex until they are sure they will enjoy the experience. This sort of statement from a British government official brings two thoughts to mind.
First, it’s nice to see that bureaucrats in other countries are as myopic and stupid as our own... [continued at original article]
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It is funny to watch liberals jump for joy when a study shows abstinence education does not reduce pregnancy and they use that as proof that teaching about contraceptives is better. But they are never able to produce any proof they their efforts work any better.
These people are out of their minds. Why don’t they just send the human race back to the stone age and advocate living like a wild animal. That’s what the results will be.
The energy with which they promote and defend those two activities is truly disturbing.
Wow...and our country is heading to be as stupid as their country.
Brave New World.
In reality, after ten years of studies, using either approach by itself does nothing to curb teen pregnancy -- the only thing that does help is a comprehensive sex education program that gets the parents involved.
And interesting how interlinked those ideas are... oversexed children are the ones for whom liberals defend on-demand abortion without parental knowledge or consent.
LOL.
I went to a school with almost no "sex education," and what little was proffered certainly did not "get parents involved."
And there was not one, not a single one, teenage pregnancy during my entire stay there.
Well, I’m always pleased to hear a success story coming from a densely poplated, inner city school.
Why? Do they require some special kind of education?
No, I went to an upper middle class private Catholic school. One in which the parents, teachers and staff held very high expectations for student achievement and behavior. When those standards weren't met, there were very real, very public, and very adult consequences.
There was absolutely no excusing or rationalizing bad behavior.
And in the end, I learned a very important truth: people rise or fall to the level of expectations set for them.
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