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Originally Posted by Anti-choice57  Any sex education in school will be treated like any social other issue the school administration tries to teach us about. Teens don't listen to anything adults say. Abstinence-only education won't screw anyone up. No pun intended | i know you're joking, but that's sort of the problem.
Teens not listening to adults + selective listening (a bit of "i heard from somewhere that condoms supposedly don't feel as good" and a bit of "condoms don't work")= a bad idea for everyone
I mean, they get told that condoms don't work. They decide to have sex anyway and... well, I don't need to tell you what happens.
I'm all for telling teens ALL the facts... abstinence is best, but if you just can't hold out, protect yourself! That's also where parenting comes in... you can't expect schools to raise your children for you. You can't be with your kids ALL the time, but if you've done your job, SOMETHING is likely to sink in. 
and jefferson, you're half-right: STATS.org - Contraception v Abstinence Education Quote: |
While Texas championed abstinence education, and teen pregnancy rates were going down, the Texan teen pregnancy rate went down less than in other states.
| BUT Quote: | Advocates for Youth found 19 programs it deemed scientifically worthy and which proved their effectiveness in preventing pregnancy, reducing HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, or producing a behavioral benefit such as increased contraceptive use or delaying the onset of sexual activity. Of those that actually decreased pregnancy rates, all included contraceptive education.
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