And there is the truth of the matter. The government continues to usurp the authority and position of parents (and many parents are so willing to give it up) - yet the government proves yet again, that it is not up to the task of being everyone’s nanny.
I didn’t read this whole article so they may have mentioned this but my understanding is that the study they are referring to only looked at a handful of 700 programs nationwide so it really isn’t a good sample.
This is a fairly dishonest early study that does not review comprehensive abstinence programs.
The take home message is ‘sorry, we have to undermine your family values— we’re the government.’
Do standard government sex ed anti abstinence programs delay sexual activity?
To my knowledge, condom oriented programs increase sexual activity while “increasing condom use.” The advocates use the condom use as a justification and “victory.”
The fact that very preliminary abstinence program efforts already show no increase in sexual activity or reduced age for initiation — which is what opponents originally said such programs would do— is quite encouraging.
But the media— surprise— wants to end the programs now and make sure students are properly indoctrinated— I mean educated.
1) Standard Sex Ed classes -- students end up having sex at age 14.9. This is just the way things are.
2) Abstinence Only classes -- students end up having sex at age 14.9. This is a complete failure and funding needs to be completely cut for this totally flawed program.
Somebody's agenda is showing.
A thread on FR yesterday gave the details about the statistical games played in this "study."
Congressman Billybob
First, I imagine that the statistics are cherry picked and slanted.
Second, it wouldn’t be surprising if “abstinence only” failed in the public schools, for several reasons.
1) The program would only be persuasive if the teachers were wholeheartedly behind it. But many teachers are probably liberal, and only doing it because the government is forcing them to.
2) The program would only be persuasive if there were good moral REASONS for abstaining. It’s not enough to say that abstinence is the smart thing to do, because students can answer, no, condoms get the same result. Since religion is not allowed in the schools, there’s no real answer to WHY students should abstain.
3) Consider the anti-drug programs in the schools. These have been going for years, and as far as I can see, they don’t do a damned bit of good. All they succeed in doing is getting the students talking about drugs, and taking them if they feel so inclined.
In other words, the problem isn’t abstinence training. The problem is public schools and their lack of convincing values. Or, to use forbidden language, their lack of religious belief and morality, which the courts forbid them every to talk about.
Actually it showed four particular programs tested that were not any of the most accepted and widely used abstinence-based programs did not have a measureable effect. The best programs were not tested.
It is not really all that surprising that abstinence education has little effect. It is competing against movies, TV shows, music, and internet which kids are exposed several hours to on a daily basis and have a message that promotes sexual activity for young kids. How does a few hours of sex education compete with that?
We’re giving over $200 million to Planned Parenthood. What good does that do?
“The abstinence-only sex-education programs on which the federal government has been spending around $176 million a year have been shown to have zero effect.”
Sez you.
they wont tell adults or teens the truth anyways
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