Abstinence

Once again the counter productive policies of the USA are front and center. I always wonder why so many adults totally forget what they were like as kids.

Support anything but reality. Equate the normal feelings young people have with your "failure" as a parent. Forget how you snuck around, how you did exactly what your parents forbade you to do.

Yessiree, deny your own childhood. Pretend you were this perfect little asshole, because anything else might lead to progress -- and we can't have that, can we?


"The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a “virginity pledge,” but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers.

“Taking a pledge doesn’t seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior,” said Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose report appears in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics. “But it does seem to make a difference in condom use and other forms of birth control that is quite striking.” "


“This study again raises the issue of why the federal government is continuing to invest in abstinence-only programs,” said Sarah Brown of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. “What have we gained if we only encourage young people to delay sex until they are older, but then when they do become sexually active—and most do well before marriage—they don’t protect themselves or their partners?”

James Wagoner of the advocacy group Advocates for Youth agreed: ”The Democratic Congress needs to get its head out of the sand and get real about sex education in America.”