Now it's time for Congress to shut this nonsense down. It's pathetic in the US but since this administration has chosen to export this rubbish overseas where the stakes are much higher and people are dying by the thousands, it is downright criminal.
Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex a few years later as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress.The world has had enough of the American religious right theory and taxpayers have given enough money to their experiments.
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 at about the same age as their control group counterparts — 14.9 years, according to Mathematica Policy Research Inc.
The federal government now spends about $176 million annually on abstinence-until-marriage education. Critics have repeatedly said they don’t believe the programs are working, and the study will give them reinforcement.
