Let’s Talk About Sex
Ninety-four percent of Texas high school students receive abstinence-only education. More than half of these teens are losing their virginity. So what do the majority of Texans really want their kids to know about sex?
4 comments
Friday, March 6th, 2009, 4:02 pm
Katy says:
BobLew: You’re absolutely right that not all abstinence-only groups use religious references. There is a wide range. But you may want to read the TFN report starting on page 39. The researchers got a good rate of return on their open-record requests that were the basis of this report, and 9.5 percent of the abstinence-only material included religious content.
Friday, March 6th, 2009, 1:54 pm
Carlos says:
Abstinacen-only is the only way to go. We should withhold contraceptives from at risk kids, this way parents will deal with their own negligence. And the bigger population we have the more labor for our ecomony. But ist’s so easy to blame the religious right, isn’t it? Just like in the movie Scarface on AMC, when Al Pacino says we need someone to point to and say "that’s the bad guy." This way we feel we’ve done all we can to stem the tide.
Friday, March 6th, 2009, 1:40 pm
BobLew says:
It is a popular MISconception that abstinence-based sex education is a holier-than-thou "churchlady" waggling a finger at teenagers.
Credit due to those invested in "the abortion business" for successfully imbeding that farcical image.
Federally funded abstinence education must by definition be totally secular ..... no Bible verses or thou shalt nots ..... but why let "truth" get in the way.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009, 5:17 pm
Crashgrab says:
This is child abuse! When else would it ever be acceptable for parents or governments to withhold life-saving information from people? Imagine this were some other issue or disease we were talking about. I am so sick of the religious right punishing people because they think they’re sinners. I thought that was god’s job. Do we really think kids deserve to be stuck with children they aren’t ready for or die from STDs because of one mistake?
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