Abstinence 'education' proven completely useless

BillieTheBot

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schoolsworldwide/story/0,,2058181,00.html

Let's hope this odious, damaging and pointless initiative is now banished forever, in the US and elsewhere.

Silver ring my hairy arse.

Former Member

$1 billion. I could have told them it wouldn't work and they could have saved their money.

What a waste of good money President Bush and your bible bashing supporters. :thumb:

Former Member

How do you stop people from having sex? TBH, I think this is stupid - fair enough, promote safe sex but there's no point in trying to set up a campaign to stop teenagers doing it.

Former Member

From what I understand, President Bush relies on the 'bible bashing' community in the US for support (sorry cant remember their proper name)

He therefore has to act strong to please these supporters, its just a shame telling kids not to have sex is pointless. As you say Sofie, its about education.

:thumb:

Former Member

No way! My entire world has shattered and collapsed around my feet!

Former Member

They taught abstinence and only abstinence in our sex ed classes in the public school I went to. And that aws a good 10 years ago, even before Bush We also had one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the whole state :thumb:

Indrid Cold

Of course it wouldn't work. It's like telling a little kid to not put their hand in the fire but not telling them why nor what they should do if they get burned.
Not a very good analogy maybe, but I'm hoping you get my point.

Former Member

Indrid Cold wrote: »

Of course it wouldn't work. It's like telling a little kid to not put their hand in the fire but not telling them why nor what they should do if they get burned.
Not a very good analogy maybe, but I'm hoping you get my point.

I think I understand what you're getting at - you think that they should know the consquences of their actions else this will just make them curious? And if you tell someone not to do something, they WILL do it.

Former Member

Yeah its like when someone says don't press that button, you just have to press it.

Indrid Cold

Sofie wrote: »

I think I understand what you're getting at - you think that they should know the consquences of their actions else this will just make them curious? And if you tell someone not to do something, they WILL do it.

Not only they should know the consequences, but also how to minimise the "damage" if something does happen.

Former Member

Indrid Cold wrote: »

Not only they should know the consequences, but also how to minimise the "damage" if something does happen.

:yes:

Former Member

I'm not suprised at all. Next time try using a legitimate form of education, inform rather than tell them to just not.

Former Member

I really struggle to understand sometimes. How is it difficult, when you have a problem to solve, to look at another country who has already solved the exact same problem, and copy what they're doing? I don't know anyone on the planet that didn't predict that this idea would fall flat on its arse like every other similar scheme in history. Ah well, it's not my country.

Former Member

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Former Member

This survey says as much about standard sex education (in the US at least) as it does about abstinence education.

One way to look at the results of that survey is that abstinence education is as effective as 'normal' sex education. Which seems to suggest that standard sex education in the US isn't working very well either (at least in reducing teen sex).

Really though, finding 'sex rates' isn't that informative. What would be interesting is to find how the different groups behaved in terms of pregnancy and STDs.....