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Posted By STONERS 1 year, 8 months ago in StylePrograms that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of millions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies.
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STONERS1 year, 8 months ago
"The study found that while abstinence-only efforts appear to have little positive impact, more comprehensive sex education programs were having "positive outcomes" including teenagers "delaying the initiation of sex, reducing the frequency of sex, reducing the number of sexual partners and increasing condom or contraceptive use."
"Two-thirds of the 48 comprehensive programs that supported both abstinence and the use of condoms and contraceptives for sexually active teens had positive behavior effect."
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Candida1 year, 8 months ago
DavidHalko: "The problem to be solved is poorly defined. The ends to not justify the means."
OK, let me define it and see whether you agree. The problem is reckless teenage sexuality resulting in STD and unwanted pregnancies.
The end we are trying to achieve is a generation of young people who behave responsibly even when they are carried away by passion, don't engage in sex lightly, protect themselves from STD and unwanted pregnancies, and avoid abortions.
Given that, which means are not justified? Encouraging them to abstain? Teaching them human biology? Teaching them the consequences of recklessness? Teaching them methods of protecting themselves? Which of these means is so horrible that it can be compared to mass murder of human beings?
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getreal11 year, 8 months ago
As long as they keep giving Kids the knowledge of sex before their bodies and brains are old enough the more teenage pregnancy.
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ETproductions1 year, 8 months ago
My experience tells me the opposite. Schools in my day taught NOTHING about it.
I asked my mom where babies came from (because I had heard the ridiculous stork story attached to the question) and got this puzzling answer, "You know what the neighbor's hunting dogs do."
Well, actually, I knew a lot of things they did. Crapped all over their pen. Howled at the moon. Sniffed each other's asses. Went hunting and flushed out quail... But none of that seemed to have much to do with baby humans. I had never witnessed a dog give birth to puppies, or paid attention to what they did to get them ready for the blessed event.
I discussed it with some friends, but they knew no more than me and only added to my confusion with their wild speculation.
Still, when my hormones started surging through my veins, I suddenly KNEW what I wanted to do.
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Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
That's simply not true. Sex education programs have increased in number and variety over the last twenty years and teen pregnancy has dropped almost every year.
This most recent study shows that clearly and also shows that abstinence only programs (as other studies have shown) simply is not as effective as a comprehensive program detailing all the options.
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
"As long as they keep giving Kids the knowledge of sex before their bodies and brains are old enough the more teenage pregnancy."
The solution is obvious... Ankle bracelets for all kids. If we don't want evil, sex-crazed licensed professional educators telling our ignorant kids about their bodies and teaching them how to protect themselves, we'll just have to monitor them 24/7. That way they can remain blissfully ignorant when they are approached by their schoolmates, or some random playground buddy, or their creepy Uncle Bob, or a pedophile who tries to give them "the knowledge of sex."
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Will13131 year, 8 months ago
so you're saying if people were never told about sex they would never have or want it.. ?
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Candida1 year, 8 months ago
getreal1: "As long as they keep giving Kids the knowledge of sex before their bodies and brains are old enough the more teenage pregnancy."
Why do you think in extremes. Why do you assume that the knowledge is given when they are not ready. Of course you can't teach a six-year-old the theory of relativity, but you can teach them to add numbers. Of course the education has to be geared to the level of the child.
The article states that education that they can understand is more effective than teaching them abstinence alone. Do you have any arguments with that?
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tkyrchncs1 year, 8 months ago
Getreal-maybe you should reconsider your screen name. You cannot get pregnant or make someone pregnant unless you are able to produce eggs or sperm-the DEFINITION of sexual maturity. It is almost universally agreed in every subject that it is best to already HAVE the knowledge when the NEED for it arises. So to speak.
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getreal11 year, 8 months ago
I'm not going to change my mind on this, in a way you are right. When I was three there was a family of three that moved in six houses below us. A little girl the same age as I was. We became inseparable. Our families believed in keeping us the age we were supposed to be. We had no reason to know what sex was about because we had no use for it at certain ages. Just like my son, he was two at the potty and told me his flag pole wouldn't go down. He ask me what was wrong with it? I said "nothing, that's just something it does. Leave it alone and it will go down." He did and he never had any more problems with it until he got a little older, there is where Dad come in.
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natashas1 year, 8 months ago
Teenagers are having sex. This is a sad truth. And now some are starting as early as Middle School. It is hard to tell if it is your child when they could lie and you do not see the warning signs. The only way to stop your child from having sex is to never let them out of the house.
Think of it this way, how many sex hungry kids are there in High School? Now, how many kids is your child friends with that have made the decision not to have sex until they are married? When you are a teenager you mind does not work like an adults would. We need to educate are children. Do not let the school do it first.
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Cinderella4o71 year, 8 months ago
I agree with you to an extent. Parents should educate their kids about sex. But keep in mind that the majority of parents use threats to keep their kids from having sex. What they should be smart enough to realize is that kids ALWAYS do the exact opposite of what Mom and Dad say to do. But where I think your wrong is where you said that "when you are a teenager your mind does not work like an adults would." That for the most part is crap. If the kid was educated properly about the precautions and reprocutions of unsafe sex then they are pretty level headed about the idea of it. The best idea I have for a parent is to be a friend when it comes to the birds and bees talk. Supply moral and emotional support, and maybe a box of condoms. If you teach them morals and respect for others and themselves at an early age than they will be able to tell the difference between a good and a bad decision. Unfortunatly parents have been slacking in that department lately.
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tkyrchncs1 year, 8 months ago
"Teenagers are having sex. This is a sad truth." For the love of Old Mrs Mithcell. Were you never a teen-ager, natashas? Nearly everyone first has sex as a teen-ager. You are officially an adult during two of your teen-age years. By the end of my teen-age years I was an experienced and accomplished lover, with no diseases or children, and DELIGHTED to be so. And I owe that to good parents, and good teachers, and fun-loving and adventurous partners. It distresses me that you think sex a sad thing.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 8 months ago
I find it intriguing that the news report failed to select this line for quoting:
"The report also notes that it is impossible to generalize about the effectiveness of abstinence programs as an intervention strategy because only a small number of abstinence programs have been evaluated to date."
Hmmmm.
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Redneck1 year, 8 months ago
"The study, conducted by Douglas Kirby, a senior research scientist at ETR Associates, also sought to debunk what the report called "myths propagated by abstinence-only advocates" including:"
They had an agenda and set out to prove it! Wonder why they reache the conclusion they did? DUH!
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Redneck1 year, 8 months ago
"The study, conducted by Douglas Kirby, a senior research scientist at ETR Associates, also sought to debunk what the report called "myths propagated by abstinence-only advocates" including:"
They had an agenda and set out to prove it! Wonder why they reached the conclusion they did? DUH!
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
LOL I guess I don't understand why you're "intrigued" that the news article didn't spoonfeed you questions anyone with even basic critical thinking skills would ask themselves. Why did you feel the need to scour the full report in search of evidence to support your conspiracy theory when the news article makes clear in the very first couple of paragraphs alone that research on the matter is far from expansive? Hmmmmm, indeed.
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getreal11 year, 8 months ago
When I was in the sixth grade the government came out with a must see tape about female production for girls six grade. Six grade was the last grade for elementary school back then. The last thing that my best friend and I didn't give a dip about was something that had already happened in our bodies. We were not in any mood to discuss that with any one else. The questions that came from the other girls were, Have you started yet? Which was none of their business. Let alone the nasty little boy that had the nerve to tell us about what he found out through the grapevine. When they said that the six grade should be put to the middle schools teenage pregnancy jumped an age or two down and skyrocketed. Sex is being treated like a must have body function and not a sacred practice with in the bonds of marriage between two people.
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jordan111 year, 8 months ago
Sex is being treated like a must have body function and not a sacred practice with in the bonds of marriage between two people.>>>>>
Physiologically, sex is a normal body function that can be very powerful. And when you're young, having not yet developed enough mentally to find the controls for your physical yearnings, your urges may just win out. That's why it's essential to educate children on what they don't understand. Sex is NOT a "sacred practice" by its design.
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toph19731 year, 8 months ago
There was a study that came out recently about premarital sex. This study actually went back to the 1940's and fully 95 percent of people had premarital sex. People may say they will wait until marriage, but the fact is only 5 out of 100 actually do. This shows sex has never been about marriage and never will be.
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tkyrchncs1 year, 8 months ago
Many societies, and some families in our society, celebrate the first menstruation. We are sexual beings, even perhaps hypersexual in comparison to other mammalian species. It is obviously silly to ignore this and expect everyone else to ignore it too. You seem very negative and restrictive about something that should be so positive and joyous.
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MacR1 year, 8 months ago
Obviously the Father has no say either. Since that woman would have not been able to get pregnant without a man supplying the sperm.
It might be her choice, Tessylo. Yet when there are guys out there willing to take the child and the woman still has the abortion. It is called selfishness on her part. Thinking that she was the only one invloved in making that baby.
That is the problem a lot of you have. You think that the woman is the only one responsible for that baby. Forget that it took a man to give you that sperm for your egg to get fertilized.
And don't give me that crap all guys run away. Cause if you believe that, then you have fallen for a myth. There are all kinds of Fathers out there that took their child after a divorce or after the so called birth mother did not want the child and adopted them after their birth.
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Cheryl41 year, 8 months ago
Mac:
You really should provide statistics for that to give yourself credibility. You make it seem like you guys have a halo around your heads. Our world wouldn't be what it is decade after decade, if all you dads stepped up to the plate and took care of your kids. Look at the statistics on unwed mothers, single mothers, divorced mothers struggling to feed and clothe their kids.
I don't think you'll find much to support your views in the way of statistics. The fact still remains, that guys like to play, but they don't want to pay. What you speak of is a very "minority" of men who want those kids enough to take them and raise them on their own. Granted, there are some honorable men ... but the statistics are nothing to brag about, and women and children suffer. Sad, but true.
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antitrust1 year, 8 months ago
Expand your horizons....there are tens of thousands of children in mortal danger (which most will not survive the day) that are on this earth here and now. The core of the problem is that you assume that you have a right to another person's body and decisions but you do not.
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Cheryl41 year, 8 months ago
Quite frankly, the core of the problem is that men are meddling in female body affairs. Until the day comes that THEY can carry an infant to term, it is NONE of their business . The very same men who are "pro-life" are the same ones who will run far and fast when their girlfriend/mistress gets pregnant and do everything in their power to get out of paying child support. Little children also "have no say" when Daddy runs and abandons the family. That doesn't stop too many men now, does it?
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tkyrchncs1 year, 8 months ago
"The very same men who are "pro-life" are the same ones who will run far and fast when their girlfriend/mistress gets pregnant and do everything in their power to get out of paying child support." I defy you to back this up. Many of us support our own children and other children too. While I have female friends who have aborted their children, I don't have any male friends who have ever abandoned or killed any of their children. And one of my friends is has for 7 years supported a thankless snotty little female dog that I detest because he loves her mother.
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
"Quite obviously, the baby has no say in being butchered alive."
And yet, oddly, "pro-lifers" are deadly silent (and I do mean deadly) when their government is dropping multi-ton daisy cutter bombs on top of pregnant women in other countries.Oh well, maybe it doesn't count as butchery if the unborn babies aren't American.
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Charlson1 year, 8 months ago
The waste of good money on a sorry program that doesn't really work. Sounds exactly what we can expect from Bush and the faith-based crowd.
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ACTeeple1 year, 8 months ago
First, let me say that I have no children and I am not trying to tell anyone how to raise theirs. That being said, I'm not surprised that the comprehensive programs are more effective. If you tell a children (very young adults) that they can't do something and leave it at that, many are going to just become more curious. However, if you EDUCATE them on all aspects of sex (pros, cons, safety, etc.), they may have a better understanding (as best as they can for their age). I understand that some people feel this goes against their beliefs, but to that I say, then be sure to understand what the school is teaching and talk to your kids yourself. Explain your reasons for what you believe. If you expect the school to have sole responsibility for your child's sexual education, you have no right to complain.
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Candida1 year, 8 months ago
ACTeeple: "If you expect the school to have sole responsibility for your child's sexual education, you have no right to complain."
It's not that they expect the school to have sole responsibility for sex education, they want to abolish it for everybody everywhere.
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antitrust1 year, 8 months ago
Maybe we should go to the root of the problem. When I was growing up (im 25) I do not remember seeing any sexual inuendoes (sp?) in the media or television. The advertisers motto is "sex sells." More then ever, children are being exposed to sexual suggestiveness. Whether it be a commercial, magazine ad, or their favorite female musician it is there.
To combat this, parents and organizations are alienating their children/followers by saying that abstinence is the only way to combat early sexual activities. Children are becoming confused as they are told one thing but are seeing another. Essentially it is a losing battle. Parents tell them one thing but our society is saying another. Blame it on peer pressure or the concept of "fitting in," young adults are going to chose the option that is more socially popular.
Education is the only way. Sexual content is everywhere and to fully understand it our children have to be educated.
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Natureboy1 year, 8 months ago
Oh, durn tootin'. I'd a never popped a boner if it wasn't for Madison Avenue tellin' me to get wood.
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
"The media is the "front end" - producing excessive demand."
I thought biology was doing that...
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 8 months ago
Anti.Trust:
I'm trying not to sound harsh here. Are you a male or a female? Because trust me, I'm 38 and the inuendoes are there. The advertisers motto sex sells has always been there.
It's not just the favorite female musician either. It's the male musicians too.
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KMFDM1 year, 8 months ago
When you were growing up? Trust me, at 25 your are still growing up. Dont worry though, I got ten years on you, and people are still trying to tell me to grow up. Regardless, if didnt catch any sexual inuendoes at a young age, then all the means is you didnt catch them. They were there. I actually remeber the first "F" bomb dropped on network television. It was in the 80s during a episode of a show called Moonlighting with C. Shepard said F.U. to a Bruce Willis with hair. Also it was during the time I grew up that they allowed to show women bra and panty commercials with women actually wearing the bras, panties and nothing else. Before our generation, you hate Elvis, Twiggy, and Cher. Ive seen black and white family shows such as Leave it to Beaver (if the name doesnt say it all), will June Cleaver (Cleaver, snicker.) wearing a pretty tight sweater and a push up bra.
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KMFDM1 year, 8 months ago
Then you got that guy from Fox and Friends blaming the lady from, "I Dream of Jenni" for the moral decade of western civilization.
Lets just be reasonable here. When you hit that age, no one needs to sujest sex to anyone. As a teenager, the pictures in the Reader Digest made me go behind the cloth doors of a bathroom for a few mintures. Let alone if I got a hold of a J.C. Pennies catalog....Oh baby!
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toph19731 year, 8 months ago
"What kids don't know about they won't try." Do you really believe this? We're talking about something instinctual here. People don't need to be taught how. Where the problem lies is lack of education and spreading of misinformation, such as your post. Raging hormones have been going on since people have been hitting puberty. Not sure how you came with the idea this is new.
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 8 months ago
welldam:
You must have forgotten what it was like to be a teen. I assure raging hormones have existed since forever.
You missed the point of the article. Abstinence is being taught in the school. It's not effective yet is being pushed. You need to teach both abstinence and PROPER use of birth control.
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Cheryl41 year, 8 months ago
I sincerely hope that was sarcasm on your part, and not your true feelings. Because if those are your feelings, then that is total ignorance. "Raging hormones" have always existed, sex education didn't. When the 60's and 70's came with all the "free love", the hippies, the rock bands and bikinis and mini skirts ... kids became caught up in the whole culture. Despite religious teachings and beliefs (however, in most cases, sans "sex education in school"), and threats to be thrown out of their homes, endless shame and girls being abandoned to homes for unwed mothers .... teenage sex prevailed.
We now have contraception and sex education ... since we haven't been able to CONQUER adolescent sexual urges thru religion, cutting off their TV, turning them into hermits and allowed no friendships, no internet, etc. etc. it only makes sense to be wise and offer them the best and most that there is. CONTRACEPTION AND SEX EDUCATION, AND YES, EVEN ABORTION.
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marlenebomer1 year, 8 months ago
Ignorance is NOT bliss, you ignorant fool!
With the advent of the AIDS crisis (spread worldwide by *heterosexuals!*) sex is now *lethal* if not adequately protected!
You wanna bury your head iin the sand and hide while the world evolves beyond your abilty to comprehend, that's *your* right! Just don't force millions of progressive and intelligent students back to the Bronze Age with you!
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antitrust1 year, 8 months ago
Often parents do not want to think about their teens having sex and the consequences that follow and often avoid the topic or leave it to the schools to try and educate them. Parents have hard enough time trying to get their teen to open up to them. My parents were my best friends. We talked about sexual topics and it was something that was very open in my family. I believe this is what helped me make the right decisions in my own sex life as I waited till I was 18 to engage in sexual acts.
The best educational tool is through open conversation but also other peers. The more that are educated on the topic, the more responsible they will become. Our sexual nature is an animalistic instinct. We become a certain age, our bodies change and mentally we begin to acknowledge the other sex, both of occur unwillingly and unknowingly.
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Harbeas1 year, 8 months ago
Abstinence won't work. Education will. Let's face it, if you are in a relationship, you want to do more than hold hands and kiss. If not, you are in a very unusual one. The more you know about your sexual feelings the more intelligent decision you can make regarding your actions.
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wyrdotter1 year, 8 months ago
Good for you! I, too, had sex ed in school, because my mother admitted her education on the biology of the process was insufficient, but we also talked, before and after, about the decision-making and moral considerations. She figured the "how it worked" was up to the schools, but the "why and when" was her responsibility. For the record, I didn't lose my virginity until I was 21, and have never had an STD or a pregnancy.
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PilotSmall1 year, 8 months ago
Hey! What I like best is the very attractive female teachers who give personal instruction! How come I never saw any of those when I was a teenager? Most of teachers were 75 year old virgins who would knock your head off if you held hands with your girl friend! Gez, what a change! I think the kids will do what kids will do and the correct information in responsible formats IS helpful.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 8 months ago
Not at all, we're talking about teenage sexual activity. Having non-marital sex as an adult has no bearing on this particular discussion of how to prevent teen pregnancy, teen STD's, and teen abortions.
And it's "hypocrite" not "hypercrite"...sorry, I know that's kind of being a spelling snob. I can't help myself.
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joeblowe1 year, 8 months ago
There are so many totally ignorant people in the world, sometimes I despair for the entire human race. What freaking, moronic, FOOL would EVER assume that TALKING to a teen about abstinence is EVER, EVER, EVER going to overcome millions of years of hard-wired biological imperative? It's just SO stupid it defies belief. Abstinence is COUNTER to nature. And everyone knows you CANNOT fool Mother Nature. If you aren't a total fool you had BETTER educate those kids or you will find yourself becoming a grandparent sooner than later. Discussion of this issue is foolish. Again I say: You CANNOT fool Mother Nature - and she INSISTS that her organisms reproduce.
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Poulenc1 year, 8 months ago
I share Joe's indignation.
Sure, let's pour more and more money into abstinence programs to appease the puritanical right (redundant?) and others who feel that a world in which kids don't have sex is a safer one for all.
The money should in fact go into programs designed to provide sex education and/or condoms to teens to prevent unwanted pregnancy--now THERE'S a true social ill.
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markmawn21 year, 8 months ago
We just need to ban dancing from Baptist communities.
The reason abstinence doesn't work is because abstinence education does not tell you what thet Little johnnie in your pants can do when make contact with little suzie's unmentionables. They just say hands off. I remember reading an Ann Landers book from the 50's or 60's where girls wondered if they could get pregnant through a dress. That was before media bombarded us with graphic sexual messages and images.
If you tell Peter to keep his pecker in his pants, he will most likely be tempted to whoop it out in the heat of the moment. If you tell Peter that there will be a peck of little Peters if we whoops it out, and why, he may think twice.
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KMFDM1 year, 8 months ago
You know what did it for me as a teenager, was thinking of how much money it took to raise a kid. I practically wore two condomns the first time I had sex as a teenager.
Why dont we just teach the only safe sex is masturbation? I mean whats the worse you can get out of that? Chaffing?
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DebraJMSmith1 year, 8 months ago
Tell them that the Bible calls any sex outside of a true Biblical marriage, fornication and that it is a sin against God.
Only God's Word can separate a person from sin.
I raised two daughters and was not about to hinge their upbringing on MY word. I raised them in God's Word and let them know what God says.
It is amazing how that does work.
Debra...
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re-laxin1 year, 8 months ago
alright,you know that a few hundred years ago or even 100 or fifty years ago people usually got married at a younger age then people do on average today. Now these people that were getting married at a young age were surely having sex afterwards. Heck, i'm guessing that some people even got married so they could have sex. In todays society it is not usually possible to get married when your 16 or 18 or whenever most teens start wanting to have sex. Therefore one reason there is more teen sex today is people fall in love just as the same as in the past and they want to have sex, Only it is not acceptable or safe because they are not married. It is very hard for teens to control these wants and feelings. Well what i'm really trying to put out is that they are not necessarily moving farther from good morals, they just aren't in the same society as the one in which the morals were set. Well that was me just rambling. Tell me what you think.
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Itachirumon1 year, 8 months ago
AHA! Take this religious quackjobs! Just like the psychos in dictatorships you never learn, you keep on spouting the same old bullplop over and over again no matter how many times you are proven wrong, the world collapses down around your ears and yet you do nothing but pretend...your plans fail but just "stay the course" they'll work in the end. Time for you to wake up, but I've slowly learned you never ever will so I'll just do the good Christian thing, and let you go down with the ship (wait...that's not the Christian thing...that's the...pseudo-christian fraud thing...oh well, eye for an eye ya know)
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MisterEd1 year, 8 months ago
It's a well-known fact that statistics can be manipulated to prove any point.
Another fact is that teenagers have sex and will continue to do so until this planet burns to a crisp! And no amount of religous dogma and Bible-thumping is going to change that.
You cannot change human nature, period. But you can educate people to use precautionary measures and, in doing so, avoid unwanted pregnancies and the spread of disease.
In this discussion, religion and reason are not compatible.
A fetus is NOT a person. A sperm cell is NOT a person.
Those who oppose the use of condoms only care about bringing the fetus to term, and once it's born, well, to hell with it. Let it be condemned to a life of misery. Let it become an unwanted burden that disrupts the lives of the parents. Just add it to the pile on an overpopulated planet.
Alas, I'm wasting my words on people who are impervious to reality.
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scott42611 year, 8 months ago
Of course abstinence only education is not working! Teenagers are going to have sex. You can tell them to wait until marriage or until they are in a serious relationship as an adult, depending on your value system...but they will still do it. Does anyone think there is any less pressure than when we were kids? Anyone who does is not living in reality.
Better to have real sex education. I would much rather a teenager be educated and thus prevent an unwanted pregnancy or STDs.
Anyone who REALLY teaches morals to their children should not be threatened by this.
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canadianrancher571 year, 8 months ago
My boys saw sex on television in magazines and in the pasture betwee animals. They knew the out come of sex, but if I had told them not to have sex the reply would likely have been, go blow yourself. With so much sex around us telling people not to do it is completly useless. Teaching sex education and informing kids on birth control will likely have a bit of an impact.
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mormondeborah1 year, 8 months ago
Report: Abstinence not curbing teen sex.............Well, duh!?!?
It's like spitting into a hurricane with co ed sex education beginning about 3rd grade, showing how to put condoms on a cucumber, promises made that if any of them get pregnant the school will get them an abortion unknown to their parents, pornography at childrens eye level in the supermarket check out lines, on the internet, on television, and laying around many of the parents houses. Superman's girl friend doesn't know who the father of her son is. Superman or her husband. Promotion of the idea that partially born babies are not human beings so it's ok to plunge scissors into their skulls. Who needed a report to let us know that teaching abstinence in an environment like this doesn't work. One would have to be an idiot to think it would have any effect on the majority.
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DrWatson1 year, 8 months ago
I would like to ask any of these idiots who dreamed up this scheme that think abstinence will work.......were YOU a virgin when YOU got married, and did any of you lot have sex before marriage. I think you will reveal the hypocracy of this ill conceived program, with those two questions.
It's not do as I do, but do as I say.
Get your heads out of the sand and educate these kids.
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joeblowe1 year, 8 months ago
Wow - I'm surprised you can still type when you are that fu*ked up. Booze or something else? {;>D)=
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william-sire1 year, 8 months ago
Abstinence must be working if someone would go to the trouble of creating this highly suspect story.
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getreal11 year, 8 months ago
I guess I'm very bless with two sensible kids. They are very picky about who they associate with. I allowed them to learn what was needed about sex according to their maturity levels and age. I handled it. Sometimes knowledge given at the wrong time or too soon is an invitation for experiment with bad results. Self control is the must. The body does not rule the head.
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getreal11 year, 8 months ago
Remember the tough love deal? Well I watched one of my best friends make a mountain out of a mo-hill with it. She is now going to be a grandmother. She told her kid to move out since she wouldn't get rid of a certain undesirable boyfriend. The girl wasn't sexually active then. She had no other place to go but to the boyfriend and now that woman has a grandchild on the way and an idiot son in Law she didn't want. The victim here is the daughter in this situation. She is now married to someone she really wasn't enthused with.
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getreal11 year, 8 months ago
It just goes to show with out the teachings and ways of the old ones you actually learn not much, because the old ones end up right in the end. Thank-you Momma and Aunt Nell, I have two good kids. Maybe not perfect, but they have a sense to know not to listen to peer pressures and get a life.
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angelitobcn1 year, 7 months ago
"too high levels of sexual risk-taking among teens"
"Many teenagers do not use contraceptives carefully and consistently"
Ignorance is bliss... :-(
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jaronnoel1 year, 4 months ago
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 8 months ago
Why so worked up, Joe? Evidently this report believes that programs that include both abstinence and safe sex education have, in fact, delayed the start of sexual activity (abstinence) and reduced the number of sexual partners (abstinence again). So, talking to kids about abstinence does seem to work.
By the way, Mother Nature doesn't really exist. Kind of like the Tooth Fairy. Remember that discussion? :)
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