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HappySqurriel on 03 September 2008
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akuma587 said:
HappySqurriel said:
stof said:

Ok, here's your number 2:

"Bristol and her boyfriend knew that sex can lead to pregnancy and knew that condoms and birthcontrol pills would reduce the probability of Bristol getting pregnant but decided to have unprotected sex anyways"

 

Yes, and everyone knew that drunk driving was dangerous, but education and public service campaigns led to large reductions and a change in mindset towards it.

 

I don't disagree ...

This doesn't change the fact that the schadenfreude demonstrated by many people about her families troubles is sickening, and the assumption that "If only Bristol had sexual education she wouldn't be pregnant" is flawed.

No one is claiming that she wouldn't have gotten pregnant otherwise, but its pretty damning testimony that abstinence-only education is an excessively idealistic and religiously motivated idea since teen pregnancy is so prevalent, and often even more prevalent in areas without real sex education.

Republicans run on family values, always.  That is one of the reasons why the Religious Right votes for them so regularly.  It is completely fair game if their families don't live up to the standard they proclaim partially due to their own narrow-mindedness.

I hope you pay this much attention to politics in your own country as you do to politics in ours.

 

 

Actually, I was looking at the statistics the other day and the most comprehensive sexual education programs (as well as the strictest Abstinence only programs) end up at both ends of the spectrum in terms success at preventing teen pregnancy.

The intersting thing is that both end of the spectrum focus so heavily on what form of education is important while completely ignoring the statistic infront of them ... The numbers demonstrate that the #1 way to prevent teen pregnancy is to live in a middle class neighborhood and send your children to a good school with the expectation of going to college. No one studies this closely, but I suspect the reasoning is that teens in these communities are far more likely to abstain from sex (and to use adequate protection when they do have sex) in order to protect their futures.