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April 18, 2007
QotD: Sex-Ed's relevance
Before I start, let me say I'm no fan of abstinence based education. But the much-hyped study from HHS, showing that abstinence based education makes no difference in adolescent sexual behaviour, is not exactly a triumph for the prior consensus on sex ed. Everyone seems to have missed the explosive finding, which is that abstinence-based education makes no difference in adolescent sexual behaviour. The kids didn't have sex any later, but they also weren't any less likely to use birth control. If this study is correct, it implies that all sex-ed is useless, a result I don't find particularly surprising, actually.
Jane Galt, "I do not think that means what you think it means", Asymmetrical Information, 2007-04-16
Posted by Nicholas at April 18, 2007 10:11 AM
It has been have known for years that abstinence based sex education (ABSE) makes no difference. Studies that I have read have shown this fact. ABSE is simply taught to make society feel better about itself. If society feels like they have done their job educating teenagers, then when the teenagers get into trouble, society does not have to feel guilty.
I, for one, do not feel guilty, no matter what happens.
I do a lot of work with single mothers. I like to help them get started.
