Great - REPEAT BIRTHS by teens!
“The report was seized by Texas child advocacy and health groups as one more indictment of the state's abstinence-only education policy.”
Abstinence does work! If parents stress it and KNOW what they're kids are up to ... I doubt this would be happening. Our culture pushes sex like there is no tomorrow. All these factors greatly contribute to sabotage the message but I really look at PARENTS the most in teaching their kids and KNOWING what they are DOING. Pregnancy doesn't happen by osmosis.
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“Manlove said Texas’ high teen birth rates are particularly driven by the state's large population of Hispanics, in whom teenage motherhood is more culturally accepted than it is in other ethnicities.”
Yes, it is culturally correct in the Hispanic culture to indulge ... and their attire is typically provocative. We truly need to upgrade their “culture” as well as the American culture. This is a disastrous situation.
Maybe I’m lost in the semantics of all this, but the liberals are saying abstinence education doesn’t work?
Maybe the message doesn’t penetrate these groups of people; that’s quite possible. But abstinence itself; the physical act of abstaining always works. Whether educating people in that way makes a difference is questionable, but abstinence behavior will work if people behave that way.