ross | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 14 2007 | national, states, news
Why are we funding abstinence programs again? And what is abstinence-only sex education in the first palce? Don't have sex until you're 18? Don't have sex until you're married? Don't have sex until you're divorced? Is the motivation to prevent teen pregnancy? And doesn't teen pregnancy break down along socioeconomic lines? Maybe the social geographers can help me out here...
Quoted: A long-awaited national study has concluded that abstinence-only sex education, a cornerstone of the Bush administration's social agenda, does not keep teenagers from having sex. Neither does it increase or decrease the likelihood that if they do have sex, they will use a condom.
- Autumn - Apr 14 2007
- Katherine - Apr 16 2007
You must be Ross's friend before you can comment on this Fave.well...it will at least be a good time to see how the bushies spin this to dispute the findings. they'll have to get pretty creative this time.
I remember 'sex ed' in Christian school. It was so bizarre! The program was called 'Mobiles in the Wind (if anyone can figure out how that relates to sex ed, be my guest) and was basically a bunch of anecdotes about your body being a temple blah blah but with no actual information about how babies were made and how not to make one. We had to ask our friends at Catholic school about that. ;-)
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