Abstinence Article

According to CNN, a new study on abstinence programs show that teens who are involved in them are just as likely to have sex as those teens who don't. Other similarities included age they began having sex at, and number of partners at beginning of program.

One of President Bush's well-known funded projects is for abstinence to be taught in schools INSTEAD of sex education. $176 million dollars are spent on these programs every year.

What the study emphasized was that abstinence cannot just be taught in high school. It but be re enforced in order to obtain maximum results. However, the report did mention that its goal was to school that the control group, children without the abstinence program, did NOT show an increase in unprotected sexual behavior.

There is so little faith left in the young community. Look at what the conservative right is resorting to in order to stop sex education. It's one thing if its a class to give information to students about sex ( hence sex education), but to block all information flow to a whole generation is not the best option. Kids will do what they want, despite what they are taught in a program (if we have learned anything from high school its this: we don't like what we learned in high school). If this study by congress is true, than abstinence programs are HURTING America, not helping it. Now kids are having sex...but without the proper information to do so. Which is more dangerous?

President Bush is in denial. Anyone for Abstinence ONLY programs before marriage need to realize that choices are made on either side, and it is only when we trust the youth with ALL of the information can they make the right decision.