April 16, 2007
Yet another study debunks absitnence education
Posted at April 16, 2007 11:25 AM in
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No surprises here, of course:
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.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.
Of course, the scary part goes back to safe sex and birth control:
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.
It's ironic that most Catholic schools do a better job about teaching safe sex than public schools because they're not at the mercy of fundigelical school boards.
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