http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1960794920071219
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - Teenagers who have had formal sex education are far more likely to put off having sex, contradicting earlier studies on the effectiveness of such programs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
They found teenage boys who had sex education in school were 71 percent less likely to have intercourse before age 15, and teen girls who had sex education were 59 percent less likely to have sex before age 15."
Is the evil biased satan based religion of science at it again? Is that it? The religious right sickens me.
2007-12-21 13:55:30 · 16 answers · asked by Resonance Structure 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't support abstinence-only programs. Look at Britney Spears' little sister. They don't work.
2007-12-21 13:59:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 3⤋
This is like the old lifeboat value’s clarification garbage. Is it ok if I compromise my values as long as the results work out ok this week?
Let’s see how the public schooled sex-educated kids do up against Christian based home school kids. How about we try that study? Won't look good for your ideology will it?
And BTW the sex education programs in your study encourage abstinence as well today. Maybe you forgot about that. So maybe you have us to thank for the new results.
At least you and I have come to a point where we both agree this is a major problem we need to fix.
And Martin S. (above) makes a very good point.
2007-12-21 22:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by mikearion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems to me that you`re contradictng yourself! If the sex ed programs are influencing kids not to have sex, isn`t that abstinance? I`m Christian and I`m for whatever influences abstinance!
However, your stats make me wonder. You say that teen boys with sex ed backgrounds are less likely to have intercourse, but what about all the other types of sex they could be partaking of. what does it say about oral sex, anal sex, and everything else? do your stats cover these? Or are these ok with you?
P .S> what`s so terrible about teaching kids to just say no till they get married? Is it so bad to teach that all sex is to be between a married man and his wife? That really is the way it was intended, you know!
2007-12-21 22:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by bill k 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christians, at least the ones that I know of, don't have a problem with children in high school being taught the basic biology of human sexuality. They don't even have to be in high school. What they have a problem with is classes that hand out condoms because "kids are going to do it anyway" and with classes that promote sex outside of the marriage between a man and a woman.
The Bible has plenty to say about sex. It isn't like Christians want their kids to think that the stork brings babies or something like that.
2007-12-21 22:03:18 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So what are the percentages after these teens turn 15? and then 16? and then 17?
2007-12-21 22:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by "The Ambassador" 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like abstinance only programs. I like realistic sex ed.
I am a Christian ( a fundamentalist, evangelical missionary). I would like it even better if people would sit their kids down and talk to them about everything from sex to drugs to religion to how was your day?, but I guess that is unrealistic in our culture.
I have to say the religious right makes me sick too. Not for their moral superiority, but for the way they misrepresent my God.
2007-12-21 22:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Truth 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sex-ed has always come out ahead.
I can tell you it worked for me. After sex-ed, I was scared to death of becoming a teenage father.
I live in Mississippi, where everything is abstinence based, and we have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, per capita.
2007-12-21 21:58:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 11⤊ 1⤋
People prefer to live with blinders on, but guess what? If your teens are not actually doing it, they're thinking about doing it, and sooner or later, they WILL do it. Make sure they're educated.
2007-12-21 22:01:00 · answer #8 · answered by CrankyYankee 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
So, what you are saying is that when properly educated people make better and sound decisions? Wow what a rebel.
2007-12-21 21:59:14 · answer #9 · answered by Old guy 5 · 9⤊ 0⤋
they will say:
a.) your study is flawed, or
b.) the end is near, and satan is to blame.
because educating children about what their bodies are capable of and are biologically built for makes NO sense, right?
2007-12-21 22:00:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Free condoms would really help the problem too. But that gets called "Encourage kids to have sex". I sure didn't need any encouragement.
2007-12-21 21:59:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋