Is that better? Can I actually get an answer this time??? Without people simply acusing me of generalizing or not knowing the meaning of neo-con or whatever???
JUST AN ANSWER PLEASE???
For if I don't get an answer, I'm simply going to assume that it is because you don't have the proof I am seeking.
2007-04-16 08:23:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Abstinence only sex education is like walking around in la-la land.
Kids are exposed to much more at an early age than 1 or 2 generations ago.
Keeping kids in the dark about the real world, while expecting them to live in some fairy tale, is not practical for this day and age.
Kids are going to do what they want regardless of what they're taught.
Know who used to be the biggest slut in my high school? The preacher's daughter.
Educate them best you can and do it practically.
You can still get pregnant or catch an STD in la-la land.
2007-04-16 08:32:12 · answer #1 · answered by Josh 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
That is like saying "we can learn how to drive safely without getting behind the wheel"
By our nature, we are curious. Add teen hormones and the natural sex drive and teaching abstinence as the ONLY sex ed? That is disastrous!
I'm conservative, however; we must deal in reality. Abstinence should be a virtue we hold on high, but not an end-all argument. People have and will have sex before marriage. That is life. The sooner we accept that and move on the better.
Preventing abortions by using contraceptives is a good start.
2007-04-16 15:33:16 · answer #2 · answered by xujames21 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a super far right republican and abstinence education is a waste of time and does not work. Lol when I was in school i would take a class like that just to waste a period.
EDIT: I think this is something parents should take the initiative to do at home, not at school. If you want to raise an abstinent christian kid than that is a family values thing, school just puts out the risks in sex ed like STD's pregnancy etc. Telling kids to not do it at all will show negative results.
2007-04-16 15:28:48 · answer #3 · answered by libh8r13f 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Abstinence absolutely does work....as long as it is practiced absolutely and conservatives don't seem to understand that they can't tell the rest of us to indulge only in the sort of sexual practices of which they themselves approve. Not everyone is capable of adhering to such strict rules, most of us just don't want to limit ourselves to sex with one person and only after we are "properly" married and each individual has the right to determine for themselves what sort of sex and how much of it to have as long as it's consensual and does not victimise or infringe upon the rights of others. We all have the right to easy access to affordable, safe birth control when we do decide to get or freak on and don't want to make a baby.
Being an American and being free means we all have the right to determine for ourselves what is good and healthy and desireable for ourselves about all aspects of our lives, especially the intimate and personal sexual aspects of our lives. Denying birth-control and the knowledge of how to use it properly to horny teen-age children is just plain ignorant and mean. Some kids are gonna do it no matter how much we wish they would wait and those kids are usually irresponsible, self-centered and clueless so let's do everything humanly possible NOT to subject an infant to parents who are still very much children themselves! If we made sure all people of any age who wanted to know about birth control options knew as much as possible and had access to as many options for preventing pregnancy as are available there would be far, far fewer abused and dead children! Screw being right, or being correct in the eyes of any god or man! Fewer abused, sick and dead children should be the goal and if giving a 14 year old girl birth control pills means one less dead baby by the side of the road then I say get that girl a prescription YESTERDAY. Fourteen year olds should not be having sex, that is not a healthy or good thing for one so young but some of them are going to do it no matter what we do or say so le'ts do anything and everything to make sure they don't make babies as well because it is cruel and stupid to put an innocent newborn in that situation and I would rather be wrong about my religious beliefs than have babies being found dead in garbage cans because I insisted everyone do things my way!!
2007-04-16 16:20:13 · answer #4 · answered by blytle68 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are going to believe what you want to believe, regardless of anything anybody says in reply to your loaded, haha I got you conservatives now question, but I will give you a rather pat answer. If abstinence didnt work, dont you think there would be a lot more teen pregnancies than there already are? Think about that. And also think about this- you cannot prove a negative, which technically you are demanding,( in your own cute, misinformed way) that someone do here.
2007-04-16 15:32:04 · answer #5 · answered by dkiller88 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, any generation born before 1960 where abstinence was the only way for teens to keep from getting pregnant. Condems were only available over the counter and the teen birth rate was miniscule compared to today.
So do you know the definition of neo-con?
2007-04-16 15:31:27 · answer #6 · answered by Homeless in Phoenix 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't work! I am a conservative as you know... I am not ignorant, so I will not pretend to think that it works.
It can work on some, but the Majority will not be persuaded by teachers or parents. They are too busy worrying about what everyone else thinks of them. There fore per pressure wins in the end. So they definitely need to know the options.
2007-04-16 15:28:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
christina, NO conservative is going to respond to this question.
they may have to explain their idiocy and they wouldn't want to do that. Telling a bunch of teenagers "no sex" is completely rediculous. Teaching about safe sex would be much more appropriate but because we are a "christian country" that would be inappropriate.
2007-04-16 15:32:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I'm not very conservative but abstinence is the ONLY method of birth control that is 100% effective.
2007-04-16 15:29:10 · answer #9 · answered by Sherilynne B 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
"Contrary to concerns raised by some critics of federal funding for abstinence education, however, youth in the abstinence education programs were no more likely to have engaged in unprotected sex than youth who did not participate in the programs," Mathematica added.
it may not have the immediate effects that we hope for but atleast it is not causing negative outcomes
2007-04-16 15:31:53 · answer #10 · answered by nothing 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋