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According to a federal report released Friday (Impacts of Abstinence Education Programs), youth in the program group were no more likely than control group youth to have abstained from sex and, among those who reported having had sex, they had similar numbers of sexual partners and had initiated sex at the same mean age.
Participants were a cross-section of middle class, two-parent, white, non-Hispanic, and poor African-American and Hispanic, in both urban and rural settings. Of 2,057 youths, 1,029 were assigned to the program group and 848 to the control group.
The survey was given after 4-6 participation in the study. Avg. age 16.5
"After 10 years and $1.5 billion in public funds these failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs will go down as an ideological boondoggle of historic proportions," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth.
Are we finally ready to accept the need for unlimited access to contraception?
2007-05-02
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