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MartiniMan
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Abstinence Only Works Best!
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2/3/2010 9:48:00 AM
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On a completely different note, a recent study in an AMA Pediatrics Journal by a University of Pennsylvania researcher indicated that abstinence only programs work substantially better than any other program in preventing teens from becoming sexually active. The results of the study indicated that after 2 years only 33% of the abstinence only subjects were sexually active versus 55% of the groups that were provided other programs.
Some details of the study:
1. The researcher is an African American and all his test subjects were African American. The study was peer reviewed and brilliantly devised. The researcher expressed complete surprise at the results but unlike the climate change fanatics stayed true to the data.
2. Four groups were created and test subjects were randomly selected. The groups were (a) abstinence only, (b) safe-sex, (c)combination of abstinence and safe sex and (d) a general health class. The programs were not morally based but were secular programs (i.e., they talked about pregnancy, STD's, and did not delve into morality-based reasons for abstinence).
3. The statistics for the latter three groups were essentially the same which proves that providing a mixed message (i.e., abstinence along with safe sex) does not work.
4. All subjects from the four test groups that became sexually active exhibited the same practices regarding birth control (including the 33% of the abstinence only subjects) disproving the canard that if you don't teach them safe sex they won't do it.
I can only offer this observation and that is our school (private independent Catholic) uses an abstinence only program and in the nine years we have had our kids there I am aware of only one pregnancy (from a student that left the school). I am quite sure there is more sexual activity than that but my observations are at least consistent with the study results. By the way, we have about 600 students in K-12. Not a big school but big enough. It is very diverse economically and racially and there are probably 20% non-Catholic students.
Please don't start posting criticisms of the study methodology. I have not read the study, only reviews of it and interviews with the researcher. It was peer reviewed by a very prestigious medical journal so I would go there if you want to critique it. In reading about the researcher's background there is nothing to suggest he is an abstinence proponent, at least before the study.
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