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For the record, you made a personal attack with that expletive.
Now...I actually have children; according to your posts, you do not. I had no problem with them getting sex ed at school; however, my son received actual education in Washington state. My daughter received 'abstinence only' garbage here in Indiana.
Oh yes, we talked here at home.
And you really might want to tone down the rage in your posts.
Your choice YOUR PROBLEM, NOT MINE!!!
I don't really care about your daughter unless she comes home with MY SON....
No I don't have kids, can you really blame me these days???
The high school that I graduated from in Washington state also taught sex-ed.
I wish I had gone to school in Indiana.
You would have loved it. My daughter went through her yearbooks to show her father and me how many of the girls were either pregnant, already had one child, or had dropped out due to pregnancy.
The numbers were STUNNING.
In her senior year, at least 20 girls were pregnant. She personally knew 5 girls who had at least two children by the time they graduated. In the year after she graduated, at least 6 of her friends who had previously planned on attending college had dismissed those plans to have babies.
City population...approx. 14,500. A church on almost every corner.
County has the highest unemployment rate.
These kids are not only bored with no prospects, they're uneducated as well (unless the parents know enough to educate them on sexuality themselves).
1. Have you noticed an increase or decrease in teens getting pregnant?
2. Have you seen their sex ed curriculum, and did it include morality lessons? Or "sexual techniques," for that matter?
3. Has anyone been known to have sex JUST because they learned about safer sex in school?
1. No
2. The sex ed curriculum was rather broad, as for "morality" - you would have to be more specific for me to adequately answer.
You would have loved it. My daughter went through her yearbooks to show her father and me how many of the girls were either pregnant, already had one child, or had dropped out due to pregnancy.
The numbers were STUNNING.
In her senior year, at least 20 girls were pregnant. She personally knew 5 girls who had at least two children by the time they graduated. In the year after she graduated, at least 6 of her friends who had previously planned on attending college had dismissed those plans to have babies.
City population...approx. 14,500. A church on almost every corner.
County has the highest unemployment rate.
These kids are not only bored with no prospects, they're uneducated as well (unless the parents know enough to educate them on sexuality themselves).
Abstinence-only has been an abysmal failure.
You are making an unfounded connection between the abstinence program in the schools and teen pregnancy rates. Unless you can demonstrate a cause and effect relationship between the two - your conclusion that the program is a "failure" has no substance.
"Reliable" and "unbiased" means that it must meet with liberal approval and only present information that supports liberal conclusions.
Try again.
Must I remind you one more time what I do for a living? I know how to discern reliable/unbiased from biased, whether it supports "liberal conclusions" or not. I can look at statistics and see HIV is still most prevalent among gay men, even though it doesn't make me happy... I can look at statistics and see abortion rates are highest in California and New York, which again doesn't sit well with me. On the flip-side, I can view those same resources and see THE FACTS on sex ed & dropping teen pregnancy rates. So no matter how many lame partisan-based slams you throw out, our histories show you are the one who dismisses any source that doesn't support your position.
On the flip-side, I can view those same resources and see THE FACTS on sex ed & dropping teen pregnancy rates. .
You haven't shown any facts about sex ed and teen pregnancy rates - you have only cited the NIH report which relies on a flimsy correlation of data - if one exists at all.
Meh - I see the thread to be more about sex education in schools than homosexuality.
It may have started out about gay sex - but it has become more about the content of curriculums and their purpose.
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