(February 4, 2025 at 1:35 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Conservative religious beliefs are a strong indicator of teen pregnancy in the us. Very few american catholics take the directives of the catholic church seriously..especially about sex. Ask the catholic church.So it would seem:
"Although the United States spends about $88m (£44m; €65m) a year teaching teenagers to abstain from sex outside marriage, young people in the programmes are just as likely to have sex as those who don't receive counselling, a new study says.
Teenagers who received abstinence education did not delay sexual activity any longer than those in a control group. When they became sexually active they had the same number of partners and were as likely to use condoms or other contraceptives as those who had not been counselled.
Sharon Camp, president and chief executive officer of the Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive issues, said, “This rigorous, well designed study adds to and confirms previous research findings that abstinence only education programmes are ineffective and a waste of taxpayer dollars.” She called for more comprehensive programmes that not only teach abstinence but also provide information on contraception and safe sex."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1857771/
"Federal funding of abstinence programmes was established by the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. Individual states provide additional funding. The US has more than 700 programmes."
There's some money Musk could trim from the federal budget. Anyone want to email him?
