(December 23, 2014 at 5:04 am)Godschild Wrote: I wouldn't say it causes a lot of harm, what you hear and are referring to are a few cases out of tens of thousands of teens and young adult. Please remember that many young adults are participating in the purity program and they make their own choices to be involved. Like all programs with the best intentions, there will always be problems to work out and problems that are exaggerated because someone gets hurt by something not expected. No program is perfect but, if this one works with 90% of young people that's a great deal of young people who do not get STD's, pregnant and many other problems. I know this program want reach 90% it was a number I brought up to stress what good can come from the program.Abstinence-only education is disastrous, and it absolutely does harm. There is no good that comes from it. So let's examine your puritan values in action in regards to teaching abstinence.
For years and years, the state of Mississippi had an abstinence-until-marriage-only policy (starting in 2012, districts were allowed to choose between abstinence-only and a so-called abstinence-plus program). High school kids weren't taught a damn thing about sex; they were only admonished that it was only for marriage. Here's the results of that dismal failure:
- Second highest rate of teen pregnancies
- Second highest rate of gonorrhea and chlamydia infections
- Seventh highest rate of HIV infections
- Higher than national percentage levels of high school student sexual behavior
If you want the full, ugly report then here you are: http://www.siecus.org/document/docWindow...rmatId=257
I live in and see the results of abstinence-only programs daily. There is nothing you can say about those results. Abstinence-only education is a total failure.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin
