Sex and youth

As youth sexual behaviors continue to be on the rise,

Opponents to abstinence education like Dr. Laura Berman blame the increase in sexual activity on, "kids learning skewed messages about what sex is," and "they are confused about what virginity means," and "I think part of the problem honestly is the abstinence only model."

That’s interesting since “the programs promoting sex outside-of-marriage out-fund abstinence-until-marriage programs by a rate of nearly $12 to $1.” Read the entire article at ChristianNewswire.com.

1 in 4 with STD's

According to the Associated Press:

At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.

A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls—nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. That rate compared
with 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens, the study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

This is what those who oppose abstinence education have brought us. They will argue, of course, that abstinence education doesn't always work, but it is much better to shoot for the moon and miss, than it is to shoot for the gutter and hit it.

Condoms for fourth graders!

According to WorldNewDaily: "A campaign has been launched by concerned parents and others in Florida where a school board has adopted an explicit sex ed curriculum that includes various how-to lessons for students as young as fourth grade, and in one incarnation proposed field trips for children to purchase condoms and then talk about their experience."

This is not the only case of public school irresponsiblity in sex education (for example, here and here, and here, and here, and here).

My parent's generation was hesitant to talk about sex, so sex education may have been needed back then. For better or for worse, those times are long, long gone. I think the time has come for state governments to take sex education out of of the public schools completely and place the responsibility back on the parents where it belongs.

Unprotected

UCLA psychiatrist, Dr. Miriam Grossman says she is seeing a significant increase in depression and suicidal thoughts among students, usually related in some way to our "hook-up" culture. Campus health centers give students all the instruction, supplies and encouragement to have "safe," attachment-free, casual sex, but according to Dr. Grossman, it is messing people up emotionally.

Read the article at OneNewsNow. Then buy Dr. Grossman's book, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student.

Endangering school children

According to the Christian Newswire, in a ruling regarding a controversial sexuality curriculum, both the Maryland Board of Education and the Montgomery County School Board have “…rejected a petition from 270 local medical doctors to include warning about anal sex critical to student safety as issued by the Office of the Surgeon General and National Institutes of Health."

Isn't it interesting that tobacco companies are required by law to inform adults about the danger of smoking, yet schools can teach children that life-threatening behaviors are acceptable, and then refuse to warn students of the risk! To endanger the lives of children for the sake of political correctness is egregiously evil!

The first time one of these kids gets AIDS, I hope their parents absolutely sue the pants of this school district and the Maryland Board of Education!

Contraception and abstinence

It appears that the promoters of birth control, especially Planned Parenthood, may have been less than completely honest with the evidence. Jennifer Roback Morse writes:

A poor cohabiting teenager using the Pill has a failure rate of 48.4%. You read that correctly: nearly half of poor cohabiting teenagers get pregnant during their first year using the Pill. If she kicked her boyfriend out of the house, or if she married him, her probability of pregnancy drops to 12.9%. At the other extreme, a middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 3% chance of getting pregnant after a year on the Pill.

Over 70% of poor, cohabiting teenagers using condoms, will be pregnant
within a year. By contrast, the middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 6%
chance of pregnancy after a year of condom use.

These figures cast new light on the debate over contraception education. The commonly quoted failure rates of 8% for the Pill and 15% for the condom are inflated by the highly successful use by middle-aged, middle-class married couples. Yet, the government promotes contraception most heavily among the young, the poor and the single.

The “overall failure rates” are simply not relevant to this target population.
Planned Parenthood and its allies in the sex education business have had
conniptions over federal funding for abstinence education. But at least
abstinence actually works. If you don’t have sex, you won’t get pregnant. It
works every time.

Read the entire article at Townhall.

Strippers and sex education

According to Christian Newswire, The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH) is hosting a fundraising event tonight. The ICAH is “one of the state’s leading advocates of ‘comprehensive’ sex education. Their fundraiser is an “adults-only” event featuring a "Neo-Burlesque Performance’ by former Miss Exotic World Michelle L'amour, a stripper whose website disclaims that it ‘is not intended for viewers under the age of 18 and should not be viewed by such." Last year their fundraising event was held at the Playboy headquarters.

It will probably come as no surprise that the ICAH opposes abstinence education. The question is, do most parents really want organizations like the this involved in the sex education of their children?