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Abstinence Education Works After All

AliveInHim Wrote: Feb 05, 2010 10:49 PM

Abstinence works EVERY time it's tried. It's why many of us parents exhort and encourage our kids in that direction, and prefer, indeed demand, that people like you just keep your beaks out of it. We don't want them to be burdened with a lifelong and/or potentially fatal disease, forever haunted by the memory of an abortion, or a jaundiced and cynical view of the opposite sex. Technology is no substitute for morality.

It really is that simple.

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Abstinence Education Works After All

Abstinence-only sex education has been a favorite target of the cultural elite, who argued it was naive at best and dangerous at worst. Now, a new study published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine suggests that encouraging young teens to just say no to sex may be the most effective method at delaying early sexual activity. The study, the first of its kind to employ rigorous research methods in a controlled setting, showed that programs that encouraged 12- to 14-year-old students to refrain from sexual activity "until they are ready" were more effective than other approaches.

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