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.
An article at the Concerned Women for America site says that this study is flawed.
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/12789/MEDIA/education/index.htm
What bothers me most about the anti-abstinece rhetoric is the way they want to shove the normalness of causual sex down our throats. In my life, I’ve known about a lot of causal sex, and the only thing I’ve seen it do is cause a lot of pain.