I will offer this observation. If you live in the heartland or rural parts of America...the abstinence idea has weight. If you live in urban America or a metropolitan area...it doesn’t work, period. There are two basic Americas, and most folks connected to the government refuse to believe in that concept.
If you drive around and start talking to folks...after a while...most all of us will come to agree on this split situation that exists. And I don’t think it can be fixed to make either party happy.
If the government stopped subsidizing illegitimate children, abstinence would become popular overnight in urban and metropolitan America overnight.
The breakdown in morals is caused by “free” gubmint money, it just happens slower in rural areas because it’s harder to live on the dole in the hinterlands than it is in urban settings
“If you live in urban America or a metropolitan area...it doesn’t work, period.”
Well, then. Teach it and let it not work for some kids. The other way around is the state actively trying to undermine abstinence education by parents. Why should kids be punished by the state just because they live in urban areas?
At most you can say abstinence education works for a smaller percentage of kids in urban environments. I don’t see any reason to throw them in the crapper just to satisfy the sexual longings of Kinsey’s devotees.
This study was in a metropolitan area.
Having said that, I have thought for quite a while that there is merit in a Red America and Blue America. Our value systems are that divergent and the red states are getting sucked down the sewer with the blue.