Posted on 11/01/2006 10:48:21 AM PST by steve-b
True, but maybe you'd be lucky enough that that person was married. These guidelines don't effect married people, so they can have all the adultrous sexual affairs they want!
If you're a rightly constructed 20-year-old (Aaaah, the memories!) you will be perfectly capable of acting like a bunny without the manipulative assistance of any bureaucrat.
Completely agreed. However, after actually reading the article rather than relying on a really stupid headline for the article, it appears that if the government is going to spend money on counseling programs and social services, this is a good idea. Here are a few points from the article, along with the actual guidelines:
"The government's clarification published in August is not a mandate," the Administration for Children and Families said in a statement prepared in response to ABC News questions. "We are unclear why Advocates for Youth suddenly believes (after two months) that States should be denied the flexibility to provide young adults with the truth that abstinence is the only 100 percent effective way of avoiding unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases."People like Wagoner, who argue this is a promotion of an ideology and has nothing to do with public health are in fact promoting their own ideology, which seeks to eliminate social mores regarding sex outside of marriage. His argument that these guidelines have nothing to do with public health is disengenuous since abstinence IS the most effective way to avoid STDs and unwanted pregnancey..... "Those who delay sex until marriage avoid out-of-wedlock births in both their teen and adult years," the guidelines read. "They decrease the likelihood of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease. They reduce the risk of having children who live absent from their fathers or who grow up poor."
Guidelines:
Groups with Greatest Needs
Using supporting data and focusing on the needs of adolescents and/or adults within the age range of 12 through 29 years old, identify groups within the State whose members are most likely to bear children out-of-wedlock. Other adults such as parents or professionals that desire training in how to support decisions to delay sexual activity until marriage may also be included as focal populations.As appropriate, describe the cultural characteristics and unique needs of the identified groups by factors such as gender, age, ethnicity, family structure, community needs, geographic region within which the focal population lives, available rates of risk behaviors, or other relevant mental, physical, health, and/or social needs.
Existing Programs
Describe existing programs designed to support decisions to delay sexual activity until marriage and which provide abstinence education as defined by Section 510(b)(2) of the Social Security Act.Gaps in Services
Describe gaps in services designed to support decisions to delay sexual activity until marriage and which provide abstinence education as defined by Section 510(b)(2) of the Social Security Act.Focal Population(s)
Describe the focal population(s) that the State proposes to reach with abstinence education from those groups identified as groups with greatest needs. The focal population(s) may include adolescents and/or adults within the age range of 12 through 29 years old as well as other adults such as parents or professionals that desire training in how to support decisions to delay sexual activity until marriage.As appropriate, include the rationale for prioritizing the focal population(s) over other groups that may have been identified in Section I but not included as a focal population.
These shifting policies are very confusing. When we endured the Clinton co-presidency, we had Surgeon General Minnie Jocelyn Eldgers advocating masturbation. Tax dollars now go to school districts to provide free condoms. Certain groups want to eliminate parents' rights to consent to, or in some cases even be informed of, their daughter's decision to obtain an abortion.
Radical Idea for the social engineers: just stay out of it.
Will all the Taliban in this forum please take this advice to heart? This will leave the gene pool clear for the rest of us.
If this is implemented, they will need to hire sex police. They will take numerous applications for crooked cops. Haaaaa
Have all the sex you want, but just don't expect a dime from the Gubmint if you do so.
Take the King's coin, do the King's bidding.
I think Sanger would have been less than a footnote in the history books without Comstock.
I think Sanger would have been less than a footnote in the history books without Comstock.
So find a good woman and marry her.
Taliban?
They don't usually post here.
Too much.
The Second Amendment gurantees the right to bear arms. Since the right to protect yourself is a near universal principle, should we do away with that one? Seems superflous to me.
Education somehow becomes forced compliance.
That's the problem, though. The government shouldn't be taking any side on this issue, let alone any other issue. Man's rights are man's rights, the role of government is simply to protect them and to leave morality to men.
Double Plus Good!
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