You waving around that bs study again? Time to update your research
Abstinence programs might work http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102628.html . On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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:367717 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
