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Experts Say Sex Abstinence Program Doesn't Work

reuters.com — By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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...

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  • zjbird, on 04/24/2008, -4/+1Old news...
  • audaciousgenre, on 04/24/2008, -1/+1"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."

    So having a degree in health science doesn't mean you know more than parents about health science? I can't take any more of this "academics = elitists" *****.
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