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Ms. Adams underlying assumption is that kids don't know where babies come from. She obviously has not spent much time around kids, as that is one thing television and our sex-saturated culture teach them. The language (both spoken and body) used by our adolescents demonstrate that the one thing they do know are the ins and outs of sex. (Just go to a high school dance.)

Abstinence education, i.e., no sex outside of marriage, works every time it is tried. It was an important part of dramatically reducing the spread of AIDs in Uganda. The problem is that we are not reinforcing the message of abstinence in our culture. Out-of-wedlock pregnancies do not carry the stigma they once did, even though the advent of the single parent family has caused tremendous damage to society in the form of poverty, incarceration, etc. We need to stop sending our kids mixed messages, and begin treating sex and its consequences as serious business rather than something to be joked about.

Abstinence only programs are very dangerous and unrealistic. Numerous, sound studies prove that is true. I would never want me kids to be denied the opportunity to learn about the real dangers of sex that they will have. The News & Record ran a great article recently that highlighted a study that found that not only were kids who pledged to remain abstinent having sex, they had higher rates of STDs and started having sex earlier than other teens.

Abstinence only programs are very dangerous and unrealistic. Numerous, sound studies prove that is true. I would never want me kids to be denied the opportunity to learn about the real dangers of sex that they will have. The News & Record ran a great article recently that highlighted a study that found that not only were kids who pledged to remain abstinent having sex, they had higher rates of STDs and started having sex earlier than other teens.

Just make the male students look at photos of Alma (in one of her bizarre hats) for an hour or so. That should settle their little hormones down.

Uganda's program is ABC: "Abstinence, Be Faithful, and use Condoms". It is not abstinence only.

Thank you, Greg, for correcting the faith-based rhetoric about the ABC program. My wife is an internationally known researcher on this issue. Bottom line? Ab-only doesn't work as well as comprehensive sex education.

The commenter above would have us believe that Ab-only would work except for the little old problem of the many billions of dollars invested by Big Business and Big Media in selling sex to our children. If only our culture didn't exist, then Ab-only would work just great.

Riiiiiiiight. If only George Bush hadn't been president for eight years, we wouldn't be in a global depression from flushing a trillion dollars down the hidey-hole in Iraq.

If only bullfrogs had wings ...

On another subject, forgetting the argument between which side is better for a second, perhaps we could try sending the message more than once? Most kids are being taught sex education during one educational year (normally in the early middle school years, around 6th or 7th grade) and never receiving any such instruction again. We should try reinforcing the ideas we are sending. Instead of abandoning our children during their greatest time of sexual temptation and assuming they'll be all right with some vague memory of a class long ago, we need to repeat the ideas and continue to give them that structure.

Abstinence only programs are very dangerous and unrealistic.*Michael S. said:

Have you any fact that reports thousands or millions of human beings have died from Abstinence or become mentaly ill?

Chances are that thousands or millions have died or become mentaly ill without Abstinence!

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