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Originally Posted by Bifta
I agree, but, if these programs based themselves around initially educating their "members" (poor choice of phrase) properly then there wouldn't be a problem. I suspect some of the states in the USA which are fairly religious don't want such things as sex, STD's and teenage pregnancy discussed.
edit: must go to bed, nearly 2am!
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I agree with that. If the abstinence programmes also actually educated about contraception & so on as well, then it could work better (well, at least they'd know what to do when they do eventually start having sex later on).
But the problem with the US ones, is, as you say, they are in fairly religious states, & the programmes themselves are (or can be) fairly religious. And so they do not teach *anything* other than abstinence.
Just look at Texas for an example of how not to do it: the *only* form of sex education in schools is abstinence teaching.
Perhaps it could work better over here, as the UK is not so strongly religious as much of the US is, so it would hopefully not be so "faith based" & there could also be proper teaching of safe-sex & so on.
But I still think it would be better to have proper sex education - & at a younger age.
They *will* still have sex - better they be prepared for the consequences.