Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by Congress.Would this be a bad time to talk about science?
Also, those who attended one of the four abstinence classes reviewed reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as those who did not attend the classes. And they first had sex about the same age as other students — 14.9 years, according to Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
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Bush administration officials cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions from the study, saying the four programs were some of the very first established after Congress overhauled the nation’s welfare laws in 1996.
Officials said one lesson they learned from the study was that the abstinence message should be reinforced in subsequent years.
[ cf Conclusions Are Reported on Teaching of Abstinence (emphasis mine) ]
Or were we all suppose to simply crank up the volume, because, of course, all True NeoCons, from the one True And Only NeoConClownCarCrew understands that these sorts of Massive Social Engineering ThingiePoohs are not gooder at all....
Besides, as we note, this is from those EVIL RADICAL LEFT WING EXTREMIST Clintonesta from the 90's, unlike the new and Improved TreeHuggerInChiefyPoohPurr...
Gosh kiddies, what if the Author of Freakonomics, see also The Freakonomics Blog, was right, that the really important influence of Roe v. Wade, was decreasing the number of Unstable Elements who would have been forced to come to term, and then grown up in even more unstable homes with people who were not ready to be actual adults in the Modern Post Industrial Society....
Or would that mean, uh, doing the Math, as IF the Math was more important than merely Bong Hitz 4 Jesus.
