It turns out that the abstinence-only program is a bust. What say those of you who supported it and still do?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070424/cm_csm/eabstinence

Answer 1

Of course it was a bust! the teen pregnancy rate has skyrocketed, and the high schoolers have insanely high rates of STD infection. Its rediculous!

Edit: Max, you're wrong. The pregnancy rate WAS going down until this program went into place. Now its going back up.

Answer 2

This is not the first time such a study has come forward.

The last study that proved abstinence-only is a "bust" prompted a study OF the study that proves IT was askew.

So within two months or so, a new study will come out showing how this study went awry.

The problem is not so much with the program. The problem is with the parents. Why send a kid to chastity class if the parents are sleeping around? Kids learn best by example. Statistically 50% of all parents are divorced now. Which means that kid is probably dealing with two parents who are dating and having sleep overs.

Why should they remain chaste when their parents aren't?

Because I said so - is a lousy reason.

PS: Dear Paint: In truth - teen pregnancy has come down quite a bit. It's the lowest it's been in decades.

Answer 3

I say that it takes more than a school program to get the message across. When kids are confronted daily with rampant images of no-consequence fornication on the tv and in their music as well, the message is lopsided. They're gonna go with pop culture before they listen to some sterile school program.

The message of abstinence needs to be played up on tv, in movies etc. Kids are sponges and whatever they see/hear more of, that's what they believe. Show me a tv show where illicit sex leads to disease and unwanted pregnancy, show me where the characters have to deal with all the realities of their choices. I don't see it too often. What do we expect the kids to believe?

Answer 4

right here dork;I don`t have to pay child support because of abstinence.