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How many were not having sex before the program was introduced...18% and
after the program was introduced the number dropped to 14%! Sounds
successful!.
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"But a paper by researchers at Columbia University and the Guttmacher
Institute, published in the January issue of The American Journal of Public
Health, attributed 86 percent of the decline to greater and more effective
use of contraceptives -- and only 14 percent to teenagers' deciding to wait
longer to start having sex."
So, what you're saying is that even though the program didn't stop all the
teens from having sex, the fact that 14% of them waited longer to begin
sexual activity is not a desirable outcome, so the program should be
scrapped??
Completely ridiculous. Adults have a moral obligation to tell children the
truth. The truth is that they can remain disease-free if they refrain from
all sexual activity. One thing the study didn't report, though, is how many
children were born to abstinent people.
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Date: Monday, May 7, 2007 3:02 pm
Subject: NYT EDITORIAL: The Abstinence-Only Delusion
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> NYT EDITORIAL: The Abstinence-Only Delusion
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> Date: Saturday, April 28, 2007
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> Source: New York Times
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> Reliance on abstinence-only sex education as the primary tool to
> reduce teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases -- as
> favored by the Bush administration and conservatives in Congress --
> looks increasingly foolish and indefensible.
>
> The abstinence-only campaign has always been driven more by ideology
> than by sound public health policy. The program's tight rules,
> governing states that accept federal matching funds and community
> organizations that accept federal grants, forbid the promotion of
> contraceptive use and require teaching that sex outside marriage is
> likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects.
>
> At least nine states, by one count, have decided to give up the
> federal matching funds rather than submit to dictates that undermine
> sensible sex education. Now there is growing evidence that the
> programs have no effect on children's sexual behavior.
>
> A Congressionally mandated report issued this month by the Mathematica
> Policy Research firm found that elementary and middle school students
> in four communities who received abstinence instruction -- sometimes
> on a daily basis -- were just as likely to have sex in the following
> years as students who did not get such instruction. Those who became
> sexually active -- about half of each group -- started at the same age
> (14.9 years on average) and had the same number of sexual partners.
> The chief caveat is that none of the four programs studied continued
> the abstinence instruction into high school, the most sexually active
> period for most teenagers, so it is not known whether more sustained
> abstinence
> education would show more effectiveness.
>
> Supporters of abstinence-only education sometimes point to a sharp
> decline in teenage pregnancy rates in recent years as proof that the
> programs must be working. But a paper by researchers at Columbia
> University and the Guttmacher Institute, published in the January
> issue of The American Journal of Public Health, attributed 86 percent
> of the decline to greater and more effective use of contraceptives --
> and only 14 percent to teenagers' deciding to wait longer to start
> having sex. At the very least, that suggests that the current policy
> of emphasizing abstinence and minimizing contraceptive use should be
> turned around.
>
> As Congress prepares to debate further financing, it should either
> drop the abstinence-only program as a waste of money or broaden it to
> include safe-sex instruction. Abstinence deserves to be part of a
> comprehensive
> sex education effort, but not the only part.
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