Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
Abstinence is effective as a practice, but abstinence-only sex education is not effective as a policy. If all you tell teenagers is "stop fucking," you haven't taught them anything. You said yourself that "people will still fuck and have kids even when they can't or don't want to take care of them." So how is preaching abstinence and not teaching anything else going to change that?
Exactly, I see abstinence only sex education as the same as the archaic ways that schools teach their so-called "drug education." Isn't the DARE method of telling kids all drugs are bad and they shouldn't do them, while comparing the dangers of marijuana to those of heroin, much less effective than educating kids about the different dangers of each drug and what to expect if faced with such drugs? We shouldn't just say don't fuck, we should educate them on the dangers and pleasures of sex, while making sure they are responsible so they don't get pregnant.

8182KSKUSH-- do you really think that simply telling kids not to fuck is the most effective strategy against teen pregnancies? Would a 16 year old kid think before having sex with his girlfriend..."Oh man, my health teacher told us not to fuck so we better not." No, he's gonna forget everything that health teacher says the second he walks out of that classroom if all they are doing is talking at them rather than with them. Abstinence only education is a failed policy.

And for the record I don't think her daughter being pregnant should have ANYTHING to do with this election, it should be a private matter. But the media just loves to stir up anything that will drive up ratings. The thing that bothers me about Palin in this situation isn't her pregnant daughter, its the fact that her daughter got pregnant while she was advocating abstinence only education and she still supports it. Maybe if they had better sex-ed her boyfriend would have wrapped his shit up.
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