Posted on 06/15/2016 5:06:04 PM PDT by Salman
In the early 1990s, with panic over the AIDS epidemic rising, hundreds of school districts began making condoms more accessible to students. The hope was to encourage students to practice safe sex and better protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases.
A new research paper suggests that decision may have backfired. It finds that access to condoms in school led to a 10 percent increase in teen births. The effects were concentrated in schools that offered condoms with no required counseling. Those schools also saw that gonorrhea rates for women rose following the condom programs.
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‘People who own guns are more likely to be shot’ - I look at this as the same type of statistics. The most likely schools to offer condoms without counselling are also the ones most likely to have higher teen pregnancy rates.
Gee, a liberal hare-brained idea having unintended consequences? That’s a shocker.
Well, I’m not so sure.
I’ve been trying to make the email link to Scott Pelly at CBS to ask him to respond or do a story.
Can’t even make the email link.
“http://www.cbsnews.com/team/scott-pelley/";
[404 not found] ... must be a good link
As predicted. This was all about sexualizing teens even more than they already were. Now they’re moving on to grooming elementary school students for the pedophiles.
Its not about having condoms its about having responsibility. Someone who is not responsible isn’t going to be more so because you hand them a means to be responsible in the event that they have decided to be stupid. Now I’m not certain that condoms played role in contributing to teen births. What we will probably find is the students in question at the schools in question are probably more likely to drink and use illegal drugs also.
Public School Is Child Abuse.
Of course. We said so at the time. The statistics from Africa were very clear. Countries like South Africa that were provided with free condoms by the UN had massive increases in venereal diseases, including AIDS. Countries that refused to allow the UN to encourage free sex all over the place with condoms had low rates of AIDS.
The same everywhere else.
School: “Hey! Give these a try!”
Students: Knocked up.
Who knew???
Funny how nearly every ‘bright’ idea the liberals have, backfires spectacularly.
The ones with lower birthrates may have higher abortion rates. Never know.
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Perhaps an element of that...but they are talking about changes in rate at the specific schools.
So here are my many issues with this study... Long term study (1992-2014), 'control' group is 20-24 year olds, 'teen' includes 13-19 year olds and measured pregnancies are those as measured of the general population which includes many urban anchor baby cities (which of course also happen to have the largest concentration of non-counseling distributions).
If this study, say, tracked birth rates of those in school who likely received condoms from the school, that would be useful data. Heck, if you simply did the sensible thing and excluded large urban centers where many arrive illegally to give birth to their 'citizen' babies and collect the benefits, that might give some indications as to usefulness of the program.
But measuring general population, most especially including heavy immigrant anchor baby destinations, extending 'teen' out to 19 year olds who aren't in school -- well, you have something that is nifty for the cocktail circuit but useless for actual management information.
“Gee, I have no idea of what went wrong - I put the condom on the cucumber just like when we were in class....”
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