Sex Education in Schools--effective at what????

Back in 2007, the late great Mahatma Basmati began one of the most intense threads in the history of the Citizen blogs regarding the absolute failure of Abstinence ONLY sex education in America. The link is HERE

At that time, the state of Massachusetts decided to forego millions of dollars in Federal sex education money, because big-government social conservatives placed language in the legislation that forced school systems to adopt an Abstinence based curriculum.

We now have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we now know the results of that controversial decision as the CDC today released data detailing teenage birth rates by state within the United States for the year 2008 (latest year available).

The results were unequivocal: Abstinence ONLY education does not work, and Abstinence centered sex education is not nearly as effective as comprehensive sex education.

The results of live births for white women for selected states in 2008:

United States Average-27.2 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-13.7 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-38.5 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-45.2 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
The results of live births for black women for selected states in 2008:

United States Average-64.2 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-39.4 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-66.7 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-77.7 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
The results of live births for hispanic women for selected states in 2008:

United States Average-81.8 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-71.2 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-139.6 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-174.8 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
The link to the CDC report is HERE (PDF file, adobe reader required)

It's a shame that the ardent "abstinence only" crew of Denise Connor, BPR, Retd Army MAJ, Paul Perkins and PentaPenguin no longer post here.

Abstinence ONLY sex education does not work.
Abstinence BASED sex education appears to be inferior to comprehensive sex education.

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How Many kids are sexually Abused?

Disturbing Facts about Sexual Abuse
Post by: Steven D. Levitt
September 14, 2007 at 1:10 pm
From research by economists J.J. Prescott and Jonah Rockoff, here are a few current statistics on sex offenses reported to the police:

1) 25 percent of victims are 10-14 years old; 23 percent are nine or younger.

2) 22.5 percent of the offenders are family members. Only 8 percent are strangers.

3) 25 percent of sex offenses reported to the police lead to an arrest.

And these are only the offenses reported to the police. Stranger sex offenses must be much more likely to be reported to the police than family abuse.

Using this data, I estimate that six out of every 1,000 10- to 14-year-old girls are victims of sex offenses which are reported to the police each year. The actual victimization rate is surely much higher.

Former Blackman High School Teacher pleads guilty to sex charges....

http://www.wsmv.com/news/26677310/detail.html

Sexual Abuse by Monks!

Monastery sex abuse cases claim 40 victims

Fifteen monks were found guilty of sexual abuse at a monastery in Einsiedeln, in central Switzerland, in cases stretching back over six decades, an investigative panel said on Thursday.

The panel said there were at least 40 victims, with the majority of the cases occurring in the 1960s and 1970s.

IS this ever going to end??????//

Stop the Silence!

It bears repeating. Speak out! An abusers gretest power is in the darkened corner of shame and silence.

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Stop the Silence!

When a child is abused, the physical pain is the easiest to heal. It is the emotional scars that remain. Just as a physical scar leaves an area of skin that is both hardened and malformed, the emotional scars leave a soul that is hardened-making it difficult to trust. The best thing any of us can do is LISTEN. It is the ongoing (and often family forced) silence that isolates--and makes the scars harder and more painful. SPEAK OUT!