Monday, November 6, 2006
Not Staying the Sexual Course: Majority of Americans Favor Comprehensive Sex Ed
filed under: State of Sex Ed by Melissa Gira
Forbes reports on a study out in the November issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine:
Regardless of their political leanings, the majority of American adults (80.4 percent) favors a balanced approach to sex education in schools, including teaching children about both abstinence and other ways of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, a University of Pennsylvania study finds.The findings suggest that the U.S. government’s support for abstinence-only programs doesn’t reflect broad public support for comprehensive sex education, say researchers from the school’s Annenberg Public Policy Center.
(Because, you know, this is just the first time American policy makers push onward despite what the American people tell them matters.)
Not only do most Americans favor comprehensive sexuality education in schools, they overwhelmingly want young people to be instructed on the value of safer sex:
The survey found that 80.4 percent of the respondents believed comprehensive sex education programs were an effective way to prevent pregnancies, compared to 39 percent who favored abstinence-only programs. Eighty-two percent of respondents said they supported comprehensive programs, while 10 percent opposed them.
The researchers also found that 68.5 percent supported and 21 percent opposed condom instruction, while 36 percent supported and 50 percent opposed abstinence-only programs.
All this, even as absintence-only ‘education’ is being promoted to Americans up to the age of twenty-nine with millions in federal funding? Is it possible to conceive that more than just blue state America wants no more of sex ‘educators’ like the one whose video runs below the fold? Take a peek at how ‘the other 20%’ lives:
(from: SexStillHasAPriceTag.com)
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