No real surprise here to any person with a brain:
Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday.
The Bush administration, however, voiced continuing support for such programs during a hearing before a House of Representatives panel even as many Democrats called for cutting off federal money for so-called abstinence-only instruction.
But leave it to a Southern Republican to say it best:
Rep. John Duncan, a Tennessee Republican, said that it seems "rather elitist" that people with academic degrees in health think they know better than parents what type of sex education is appropriate. "I don't think it's something we should abandon," he said of abstinence-only funding.
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That comment from the senator seems to be contradictory. He is half right, parents should be instructing kids on these topics, not school systems. This is just as absurd as putting a condom on a banana in health class. All this stuff is just better off left outside the confines of schools.
Posted on April 24, 2008 2:30 PM