"Comprehensive" Sex Ed Still Gets More Tax Dollars Than Abstninence Ed

CNS NEWS ^ | October 14, 2005 | Randy Hall

[Candy_nsuch]

As Congress finishes work on the federal budget for the 2006 fiscal year, attempts to hold down spending on programs dealing with sexual health have drawn criticism from both sides of the political aisle.

But while activists are complaining that their programs will not receive sufficient money for the coming year, funding for "comprehensive sex education" supported by liberals still outpaces "abstinence education" backed by conservatives by a margin of 12 to 1.

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U.S. teen pregnancy and birth rates have plummeted to all-time lows as more teenagers delay sex, abstain, use contraception and use it more effectively. Abortions also are down.
Teen pregnancies and births are down about a third nationwide from their peaks in 1991, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

[antiRepublicrat]

Good, because naive abstinence-only doesn't work. It's even worse since some of the materials are full of lies designed to scare the teenagers into not having sex. Teenagers can spot adult BS a mile away, and they will assume the whole of the materials are BS, and ignore them.

However, IMHO, if we have to have sex ed then realistic, honest abstinence education shoud have a prominent place in it.