By Douglas V. Gibbs
The liberals have been telling us for half a century that it is universally known that comprehensive sex education for our children in the schools is the best way to curb teenage sex, and that abstinence education doesn't work. In fact, I was reading an article in Newsweek that proclaimed that abstinence education doesn't work, is counterproductive, and everybody understands that except a foolish few.
Sounds like a bunch of Global Warming Hysteria folks, doesn't it?
Thing is, it turns out, as conservatives and Christians have been saying all along, the "consensus" that sex education is the holy grail of lessening teenage pregnancies, and telling kids not to have sex in order to keep them from having sex doesn't work, was wrong.
According to a recent landmark study, it turns out that abstinence education works better than sex education.
Sure, no method is perfect, and abstinence education has to battle a societal view that encourages sex through a number of outlets, which is roughly like someone throwing boulders in a wheelbarrow as you push it up a hill. But, how insane is it to say that telling someone they ought not do have sex before marriage is a bad method when the goal is to get them not to have sex before marriage?
"I think we've written off abstinence-only education without looking closely at the nature of the evidence," said John B. Jemmott III, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who led the federally funded study I am referring to. "Our study shows this could be one approach that could be used."
The Obama administration eliminated more than $170 million in annual federal funding targeted at abstinence programs after a series of apparently flawed reports concluded that the approach was ineffective.
Like usual, the Democrats are doing the opposite of what they should be doing.
Go figure.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Let's Talk About Sex - Newsweek
Abstinence-only programs might work, study says - Washington Post
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