From the UK Telegraph, the British are facing up to the conclusion that sex education and greater availability of contraceptives is increasing risky behavior:
Professor David Paton, an economist at the Nottingham University Business School, said: "The underlying social deprivation of an area, family breakdown rates and religion seems to have a greater effect on teenage pregnancy rates than more obvious policies such as sex education or providing access to family planning.
"There has been a tendency for the Government's teenage pregnancy strategy to focus on creating schemes where teenagers can get the morning after pill or other forms of family planning at school or clinics.
"The danger with this sort of approach is that it can lead to an increase in risky sexual behaviour amongst some young people.
"There is now overwhelming evidence that such schemes are simply not effective in cutting teenage pregnancy rates."
1 comments:
That is not what it says at all.
What it does say is that these items:
- The Underlying Social Deprivation of an Area
- Family Breakdown Rates
- Religion
are more significant of a factor than these items:
- Sex Education
- Providing access to Family Planning
In more brutal terms, if you don't want your fourteen year old daughter to squeeze one out. You might want to move out of the slums, go to church more often, and not divorce your spouse rather than relying on the government to raise your children for you.
If the article is advocating anything, it is recommending parental responsibility.
If you are looking for a piece of propaganda to promote your social agenda (removing sex-ed from schools), you should look somewhere else. I would recommend the monetary savings of not having a health class or argue that sex-ed was taking time away from more important classes like math, reading, or computer science.
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