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Posted on 10/19/2007 1:52:59 PM PDT by NYer
Sacramento, Oct 19, 2007 / 11:01 am (CNA).- According to a study published last month in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion, there were 1.1 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young Californians in 2005, the California Catholic reports.
The figure is ten times higher than previously believed. If the study is accurate, diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HPV, and HIV now infect almost one out of four Californians in the 15-24 age group.
The authors believe that their figures are underestimated because of incomplete screening of sexually active young people and failures in follow-up testing.
The California Department of Education reports that 96 percent of California school districts provide comprehensive sexual health education. All California schools have been required to teach HIV/AIDS prevention since 1992.
According to Chris Weinkopf, editorial-page editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, state law prohibits 'abstinence-only' education in public schools. California has also refused to accept millions of dollars in federal funding for abstinence education.
Linda Klepacki, sexual health analyst for Focus on the Family Action, thought the dramatic increase was unsurprising. "California has insisted on teaching contraceptive-based sex education in their schools all along. They expect teens to be sexually active. They don’t raise the health standard to abstinence… It's clear California supports sexually active teens, and STI rates will naturally explode with these policies," she wrote in an on-line press release.
Plan B, the so-called "morning-after pill," could be another factor contributing to the increase in STIs. Sexually transmitted infections soared in the British Isles when Plan B was made available without prescription in 2000. California was one of the first states to permit the sale of Plan B over-the-counter without an age limit.
Along with the increase in sexually transmitted infections, there has also been a striking increase in the suicide rates among young people. UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossman has argued that promiscuity is the root cause of much depression. She believes the promiscuity-depression-suicide link is being ignored by doctors who fail to caution students about the dangers of the "hook-up" culture.
One of the plot lines of Boston Legal dealt with this topic last week. Of course, they got it exactly wrong.
No big shock here...If we don’t teach self control, no flimsy piece of latex is going to keep them safe.
And so it goes... Simple morality going down the hell in a hand basket road do to the casual “hooking up” syndrome. Nobody is a whore, “Everybody’s doing it!”
Heavenly Father God, Please help me to help my 12 year old daughter. In HIS Name, Amen.
Will leftists ever learn?
(of course that’s a rhetorical question)
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The aftermath of leftism............degeneration of a people!
This is so obvious. Aside from the promotion of promiscuity in the schools and the culture, a primary driver of the STD epidemic is hormonal contraceptives. When the girls are taking pills, patches, or shots, the motivation for condom use goes way down.
Wake up, girls! Guys don't care if you get pregnant, and they don't care if you get a potentially fatal disease. Tell them to leave you alone!
Well, no kidding.
This could only surprise a brain damaged liberal.
It's the one most people carry around, "don't even know it", inless it's the few of it's strains that give warts....
Our children are growing up in a sex-saturated culture. Is it any wonder that, like typical youth, they follow the directives of their educators over those of their parents. We are rapidly sinking into a man-made morass. As parents, we need to find a voice with which to decry this outrageous and impertinent assault on our children.
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