(August 22, 2016 at 2:45 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:Seriously? You claim a lack of sexual education is the cause of unwanted pregnancy and the spread of std's?(August 22, 2016 at 2:11 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: I don't really care who is banging away at who. What I witness everyday is the aftermath of children being born outside of marriage. In my world I see dozens of households where one parent is missing. Rarely is it the mother. It seems that when something goes askew that the woman is most often the person left to shoulder the bulk of the burden.
What you are talking about is not the result of promiscuous sex. It is the result of people uneducated in the use of birth control.
IUD's, modern pills and patches are 99.7%, or more, effective.
There would be next to none of the problems you mention if REAL sex education was taught in schools.
Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping for years country wide (2012 was the lowest since 1946), except the states where abstinence only is taught.
I suppose you would say people die from cancer as a result of tobacco use because they weren't educated that smoking increases your risk of cancer.
I suppose lack of education may represent a fraction of the blame, but I would state the reasons to be much different.