Abstinence-only sex education is working...!
In a troubling reversal, the nation's teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, surprising government health officials and reviving the bitter debate about abstinence-only sex education.... if, by "working," you mean, "fulfilling John Gibson's fondest wish."
The birth rate had been dropping since its peak in 1991, although the decline had slowed in recent years. On Wednesday, government statisticians said it rose 3 percent from 2005 to 2006.
The reason for the increase is not clear, and federal health officials said it might be a one-year statistical blip, not the beginning of a new upward trend.
However, some experts said they have been expecting a jump. They blamed it on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that doesn't teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception.
To put it bluntly, we need more babies. Forget about that zero population growth stuff that my poor generation was misled on. Why is this important? Because civilizations need population to survive. So far, we are doing our part here in America but Hispanics can't carry the whole load. The rest of you, get busy. Make babies, or put another way -- a slogan for our times: "procreation not recreation." That's "My Word."In that sense, abstinence-only sex ed is going gangbusters.
In every other sense, not so much.
2 comments:
Funny I thought that we needed to make babies to flood the job market so workers would lose the rest of their rights.
That's why we mustn't have abortion.
Now we musn't have birth control (most kinds).
And abstinence education is working (like you explained.)
(Except in Africa where it has discouraged the use of condoms and therefore people who could be working to make the rich richer are dying of AIDS. Some of this I explained in my posts about how condom use is much more effective than circumcision in stopping the transmission of HIV/AIDS.)
What happened when 1/4-1/3 of Europeans died of the plague back in the days, workers got some rights. So to reverse that, you need too many working people.
Two to fan the fat cat. Two to feed him grapes. And ten million to make him wealthier than God.
Don't mind me I just read at the LA Times that the CA electoral initiative bid has failed to make it to the ballot.
Most go blog.
Wrong metric. The success of abstinance-only education isn't measured by the teen pregnency rate, or the STI rate. If those fall, that's good, but they are only secondry objectives. The primary objective of abstinance only education, and thus the main metric for it's success, is the premarital sex rate.
Claiming that abstinance education is intended to prevent unwanted pregnency or STIs is just clever marketing. Abstinance proponents are usually highly religious and social conservatives - their main concern is fighting sin.
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