yes Sam, it has. We have gone through this multiple times. And each and every time I provide about 4 or 5 different studies that show that abstinence education is not statistically significantly different from the controls of no sex ed. And I've also shown you a number of comparison between comprehensive based sex ed programs and abstinence. Each and every study showed again that it was not as effective as sex ed and in some cases worse than the controls.
Here is another semi futile attempt to get it through your skull. You are very wrong on this issue. The scientific data is very clear. In Interventions to reduce unintended pregnancies among adolescents: systematic review of randomised controlled trials Alba DiCenso, Gordon Guyatt, A Willan, &L Griffith http://www.bmj.com/content/324/7351/1426 The authors compared comprehensive sex education programs with abstinence-only programs. Their review of several studies shows that abstinence-only programs did not reduce the likelihood of pregnancy of women who participated in the programs, but rather increased it. Four abstinence programs and one school program were associated with a pooled increase of 54% in the partners of men and 46% in women (confidence interval 95% 0.95 to 2.25 and 0.98 to 2.26 respectively). In other words abstinence education does not work and is associated with a potential increase in teen pregnancy rates. Moreover other studies have found that abstinence education programs were associated with significantly higher STD rates than comprehensive sex ed as welll On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > It hasn't been proven to be less effective. They just can't prove it's more > effective. > But you knew that. > > . > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Why do people push to teach abstinence-only education when it has been > > proven time and time again to be less effective? > > > > A lot of times, people push to teach what is comforting to them, what > they > > want things to be, rather than what they are or were. > > > > Cheers, > > Judah > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367712 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
