Is the religious abstinence education really working?

Question

Blind faith on sex-ed approach puts kids at risk
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18136717/
other stories
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55217
http://www.spiritindia.com/health-care-news-articles-8351.html
This artical has the parents wanting more.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07107/778610-298.stm

What do you think,
a 10 year study, to show the abstinence education has no effect, Should it be updated? why or why not?
should schools have a more comprehensive sex education (talks about comdoms & birth control, reproduction, STD's, safe sex....ect.)
Safe sex info below... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_sex#Non_Penetrative_Sex

Because the religious abstinence isn't working all to well.
What is some of your ideas to help teens with sex?

Answer 1

Teens must be expected to have sex. It is normal and hormones are raging in mentally immature bodies.



Children must be protected from disease and unwanted pregnancies. They must be informed and prepared.

Answer 2

Not only is it not keeping kids from having sex, it is making them unprepared to be safe. Another study found that those who we through abstinence only sex ed were as likely to have sex as those who had no sex ed, and they were less likely to use protection. This is because most of the programs tout (incorrectly) how little protection condoms actually provide.



Besides endangering teen’s health, abstinence-only-until-marriage programs raise serious civil liberties concerns. These programs create a hostile environment for gay and lesbian teens, reinforce gender stereotypes, and in some instances use taxpayer dollars to promote religion.

Answer 3

I am all for teens abstaining from sex. Sex is a minefield of complications best reserved for when you are more self-aware, wiser and your choices are more educated.



However I am also a realist.



From the onset of puberty (12) till around the average age most people in the U.S. get married (28), you are talking about SIXTEEN years of celibacy! Not even cloistered clergy have been able to do this successfully 100%! Yet we expect teenagers who are experiencing the most RAGING hormones ever and are also insecure, curious, eager for adult experiences and highly emotionally needy with far less supervision than ever before to wait until marriage?



Even if their virginity survives high school, let's not forget college. So if the foundation of information is already bad since high school, no wonder the number or STDs, unwanted pregnancies skyrocket in college.



The ONLY way to guarantee abstinence will work close to 100% is if we become like Muslim countries and keep boys and girls segregated until a marriage is arranged.



When those so-obviously Christian influenced abstinence programmes hit MY daughter's school, I made sure to educate her myself on EVERYTHING. She is now in college, and has had a boyfriend and I am no fool, she probably has sex but unlike many of the girls she went to school with in our little town, she has been empowered enough not to end up a single teen mother or prematurely married because it is the only way to go all the way with the person you are in love with.

Answer 4

we don't want religious abstinence. we want abstinence in many situations. while youngsters and a few youthful see the religious component, they insurrection. while did coaching absolutely everyone to admire themselves die off. the subject isn't fornication. the subject is leaping to judgements and in beds. faculties in Chicago have complete intercourse ed yet that still would not artwork on my own. this is the mothers and dads job; yet "It takes a village...." The msnbc article is basically too harsh without thinking the physique of strategies of our society. "stay and enable stay" is killing us.

Answer 5

I've never believed it would work. What they are trying to do is fight against Nature itself. Fight against Nature and you'll loose every time. One must learn to work WITH Nature. That's why condoms and the pill work so well. They take advantage of loop holes left by nature that we use to work around it to get the desired result.



To tell teenagers to not fool around isn't doing that. That's trying to stop nature in its tracks, and anyone with half a brain knows that teens are directed by their hormones not their heads.

Answer 6

"Religious" means supernatural, imagination, or fiction.



Abstinence is not engaging in sex.



Religion exists in an imaginary world. Sex, libido, and biology exist within the real world.



If we want to teach abstinence, it has to be from the real world. (Like showing slides of diseased body parts, yuck!) Religion has nothing to do with the real world.

Answer 7

Religious abstinence just promotes ignorance. Kids need education and knowledge.

Answer 8

Stop treating kids like kids and start educating them of the effects of unsafe sex and how to be safe.

Answer 9

If measured in terms of reducing STD's and unwanted pregnancies, it's totally ineffective. However, you misunderstand its purpose. When used as a means to motivate crazy religious people to vote for corrupt politicians, it's very effective.

Answer 10

Give them condoms and show them how to use them. Give them somewhere that they can go for free contraception and education where it's confidential.

Answer 11

When you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything. Say NO to sex until you marry the person who is strong enough to love you in better or worse!

Answer 12

uh well, it should start at home. do you really want someone else to teach your children about sex?

Answer 13

Just as well as D.A.R.E worked !!! LOL



By the way....it didn't work at all..in fact, it was counter productive.

Answer 14

Apparently so, I haven't been laid in weeks. :(