HappySqurriel said:
2) Ignorance plays a big part of it, but it could be argued that these young girls (and young boys) are ignorant of the consequences of their actions. I'm certain that in the 1940s few daughters were told that sex is no big deal ... 3) There have been several studies done on the relationship between the number of pre-marital sexual partners and divorce rates and there is a direct correlation between the two. From what I remember (off the top of my head) if one partner had 20 or more sexual partners the divorce rate is (something like) 80% after 10 years. The most often cited reason for this is infidelity ... 4) How many of those Mexican families have children to unwed mothers?
I'm not saying that people shouldn't have pre-marital sex, but the elimination of consequences for poor decisions to encourage treating sex as a recreational activity has many demonstrated negative consequences. Diseases that were once relatively well controlled (like syphilis) are becomming drug resistent because the is a growing population of morons who believe that there are no consequences for (often unprotected) sex with strangers |
1) I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If you mean that moderate people apply it more effectively, you're probably right, but there has been a huge surge in abstinance education over the last serveral years. Some of those practices flat out discount methods of birthcontrol as being effective and condemn others. These women are the most likely to contribute to the welfare problem in this society.
2)You can't blame the government for the ignorance of its children. That is an educational failure that is more on the parents than on the system itself. While I maintain that cultural and religous influence play huge parts here, those are communal and not established by the our state and or federal government. Essentially, you're argument only strengthens mine.
3)Where were we discussing divorce rates in this? This is about contraceptives and female choice.
4)What does it matter? Once again this discussion is about female choice and contraceptives, marriage is not a factor here. The only thing I aimed to show here was that people who are not properly educated on contraception or who are told its taboo (huge in the Catholic church) tend to have more kids they can't afford and that the cost per child is more expensive from a welfare perspective then providing contraception. Actually I would say that these married familes might actually be doing more damage then single women.
Also you're still not demonstrating how contraception eliminates consequences...people who use contraception properly don't have kids, and have about the same, if not lower rate, of STD's...As it stands (given details of my sexual history above) I've not so much as had a case of the crabs in the 16 years or so I've been sexually active. I can verify this too because when I was not married, I had myself tested on a regular basis...
If anything you are demonstrating that contraception and education are effective tools. Healthy sexual actiivity also has many demonstrated postive effects as well, which are well documented...
P.S. Out of my many partners over the years...I've yet to cheat on anyone.
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