William T Goodall wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/teens_ignore_abstinence/ > > "Teenagers will not refrain from having sex, even if you spend a > billion dollars trying to persuade them to keep their trousers > zipped and chastity belts locked. > Ok, but I don't see how you can call the Faith-Based Bush Sex Program a "failure", when it gets the same (ridiculous) result as sex education :-)
> This is the conclusion from a six year study by Mathematica Policy > Research into the sexual behaviour of more than 2,000 teenagers > across four states, and a variety of social groups. > > The researchers sliced the data into two sets: those who > participated in so-called chastity education programmes, in which > only abstinence is suggested as a form of birth control, and those > who did not, and had access to traditional sex education programmes. > > The average age at which the teens reported having sex for the first > time was identical: 14.9 years. > So, the chastity program wasn't worse than the other program. > Neither group showed more inclination than the other to use > contraception, either. Of those who said they'd had sex in the last > year, 23 per cent in both groups said they always used a condom, 17 > per cent only sometimes using a condom, and four per cent never did. > So, again, the chastity program wasn't worse than the other program. > The number of partners was the same, too, with a quarter of > teenagers in both groups reporting having had at least three sexual > partners. > > The abstinence programme has been a central part of the Bush > administration's social policy, and the government has poured about > a billion dollars into it over the last 10 years. > > But the research would seem to suggest that the money has not been > well spent. All that has happened is that teenagers are pledging not > to have sex, getting their nice little silver rings, and then > shagging like rabbits anyway. " > Ok, but how can these numbers yield the conclusion that the chastity program is _worse_ than sex education? It's exactly the same crap and waste of money. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
