Looks like Georges Bush plan to stop American teenagers from having sex as backfired rather spectacularly. Despite spending just over $1bn dollars, American teenagers are ignoring the advice.
What's more worrying is that in a lot of US states, normal sex education classes that teach teenagers about sensible things such as condoms and STD's have stopped and replaced with the abstinence only message, thus leaving a lot of teenagers ignorant about important sexual health issues.
The Abstinence program has also been a core part of US overseas aid program. Theoretically it forms part of the ABC program (Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom), but a lot of time only the Abstinence program has been pushed while simultaneously withdrawing funding from programs for sex workers
Thursday, 19 April 2007
Teenagers will be teenagers
Posted by Charles Meaden at 10:36
Labels: sex education
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