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royale-noirWednesday, January 7, 2009 at 1:36:00 PM EST
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Fortunately I am old enough to remember when they had contraceptive education in schools but it is obvious to the public and I that abstinence only programs are failing so miserably and something must be done before our youth suffer anymore. Abstinence only sex education is a form of sex education that emphasizes abstinence from sex to exclusion of all other types of sexual and reproductive health education, particularly regarding birth control and safe sex. This type of sex education promotes sexual abstinence until marriage and either completely avoids any discussion about the use of contraceptives, or only reveals failure rates associate with such use. What they fail to mention are the rising rates of teen pregnancies over the past 10 years or so that abstinence only has been thrust upon us by our very own government.
I really believe the competition betweenthe two programs needs to stop, everyone is blaming one another for the rising pregnancy rates and no one is effectively doing anything about it. Rather than teaching from a judgmental platform; right and wrong, abstinence only programs should incompass contraceptive informaton and fully educated our youth. In the end the student will have a choice on whether they will have protected sex, unprotected sex or abstain entirely from it. Either way they will have full knowledge of the choices they are making....What's so wrong about that?
It all sounds like a simple fix to me, maybe I am wrong but the procedures we have now are not working and have been failing for 10+ years. I wonder how much longer must we fail before we try something different.
According to the Associated Press by way of the Center for Disease Control and PreventionSome experts have blamed the national increase on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception. They said that would explain why teen birth rate increases have been detected across much of the country and not just in a few spots.
There is debate about that, however. Some conservative organizations have argued that contraceptive-focused sex education is still common, and that the new teen birth numbers reflect it is failing.
I really believe the competition betweenthe two programs needs to stop, everyone is blaming one another for the rising pregnancy rates and no one is effectively doing anything about it. Rather than teaching from a judgmental platform; right and wrong, abstinence only programs should incompass contraceptive informaton and fully educated our youth. In the end the student will have a choice on whether they will have protected sex, unprotected sex or abstain entirely from it. Either way they will have full knowledge of the choices they are making....What's so wrong about that?
It all sounds like a simple fix to me, maybe I am wrong but the procedures we have now are not working and have been failing for 10+ years. I wonder how much longer must we fail before we try something different.
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