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Somebody up there has a wicked sense of humor.
How else do you explain the release this week of a new study by John B. Jemmott III proving that an abstinence-only education program works?
First President Obama slashes virtually all federal funding for abstinence-only education programs in 2010. ("It's about time that evidence-based management -- and sanity -- return to family planning programs," applauded Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.)
Then just last week, the Guttmacher Institute -- which is affiliated with Planned Parenthood, but usually does good science anyway -- reported that teen pregnancy rates are once again rising. Oddly, with a...
About That New Abstinence Study
It's one thing to explain as part of biology class what happens to boys and girls when they reach puberty. That's how I remember learning when in sixth grade; the boys were ushered out of Mrs Jones' room and into Mr Eldridge's so we girls wouldn't be embarrassed by their presence in the face of such intimate information. I never did find out what film or lecture they got to see/hear, darn it. We never got any more than the biological facts of the monthly cycle.
By the time I'd reached my senior year, the libertines were already firmly entrenched. We were told in our Family Living class (which at the...