03-27-2008, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by OKgrannie  Since the ones who got the "don't have sex" message had a much higher rate of pregnancy, it seems fairly obvious that they are ignorant and in need of further instruction.
It's simple statistics, those who received comprehensive sex ed had few pregnancies. Those who received abstinence-only sex ed had more pregnancies.
You're misreading or perhaps deliberately misleading...it's an abstinence-ONLY message that hurts kids. Why? Because (1) it is doomed to failure, and (2) when it does fail, kids don't know how to protect themselves. By the time kids get to be teen-agers, it isn't a matter of "letting" them do whatever they want, because they are going to. It is a matter of guiding them so that they see the value in doing the right thing, and so they WANT to do that.. | So in fact kids are not hurt by the message, they are hurt by IGNORING the message!
That's a crucial difference.
Your assumption that kids are going to have sex regardless is the message that can hurt.
Why are so resigned to defeat? Why don't you teach self-control and personal responsibility?
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