Abstinence Ed “Failure” Story Debunked
— Posted by Eric (September 1, 2006 at 5:16 pm)
There’s a story—actually several months old at this point—that’s lately been making the rounds at various radical feminist and other leftist websites and even the mainstream media. It’s about the alleged abject failure of abstinence only programs at one Timken High School in Canton, OH, resulting in an epidemic of teen pregnancies, and how the school administration jettisoned such programs in favor of “comprehensive” programs that include birth control instruction.
Tim at Random Observations looked into this report and offers a thorough debunking. The most outrageous bit is the case of one Timken student whose parents claimed to have talk to her “45 times a week” about sex, and yet—somehow—blame the school for their daughter’s pregnancy! As Tim concludes: “In short, we appear to have been conned yet again.”
Read the whole thing.
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Pansy Moss says:
Interesting article.
You know it will not go anywhere that NARAL has spread the rumors to the contrary, unfortunately. We will read about it, and it tells us nothing new except NARAL has a strange mission we do not understand in regards to sex.
On the surface, I find it so hard to believe:
1. An abstinence only education program in a public school in modern times.
2. That teens are so ignorant of birth control use. Why do they need birth control lessons every year? The idea that condoms are some hidden mystery in our current culture is ludicrous.
3. The notion that teens have sex just like they eat and sleep, therefore teaching them to use condoms is akin to teaching them to eat fruit instead of candy, exercise, and getting plenty of rest.
Maybe because people aren’t married anymore, but most married couples know, this funny thing happens when you have sex with someone on a regular basis-you get pregnant. Even many of the couples I know who contracept seem to have one more child than “planned”. It reminds of me of this funny thing that happens to ice cream when you take it out of the freezer and leave it on the counter-it melts! I can leave it in a cooler room for protection, but by golly, it still melts!
I am not sure what the goals of PP and NARAL are anymore. I used to think they were just mislead, but they really seem to have an agenda. Somehow breaking up families, killing babies, and having more children to single parent homes seems appealing to them. Logic would dictate there was a time that premarital sex was stigmatized (yeah, we call that “abstinence only”), and there were less teen pregnancies.
Comment posted September 2nd, 2006 at 4:53 am
mary kay says:
About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence
1. >From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage ”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
Thought this was kind of interesting…and maybe a little frightening!
MK
Comment posted September 5th, 2006 at 5:34 am
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