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I didn't know that. Sounds like a good choice, all things considered.http://copeso.dadeschools.net (what gets me, is the school mascot @ Cope South in Miami, FL, a f*cking stork & baby.
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I didn't know that. Sounds like a good choice, all things considered.http://copeso.dadeschools.net (what gets me, is the school mascot @ Cope South in Miami, FL, a f*cking stork & baby.
Agreed. I've been saying we were in a dictatorship for six years. I'm glad everyone is finally noticing.Ok kids...do you remember learning about facism in world history class?
And it's just as entertaining the way just mentioning Bush & co. throws you into a lib-bashing Tourette-like seizure.It's entertaining the way just mentioning Bush & co. throws libs into Tourette like seizures.
There is nothing conservative our current administration, other than their bull crap propaganda.
I agree with Transformer. The problem is that the people who need to abstain are not going to do so. Those who dont want to use protection because it doesnt "feel good" or want to pretend that if they arent using it they arent having sex are going to continue to contract and spread STD's as well as bringing children into the world who they will be hard pressed to care for sufficiently. I just see this as another option. One thing is if you arent having sex then you arent getting pregnant or contracting STD's. I hope that someone will see this not as another way the government is trying to dictate this most personal part of their life and think about the choices that they are making which affect not only themselves but potential children and partners (Not to mention disgruntled taxpayers) in days to come.
I hope that someone will see this not as another way the government is trying to dictate this most personal part of their life and think about the choices that they are making which affect not only themselves but potential children and partners (Not to mention disgruntled taxpayers) in days to come.
This is the only point I was trying to make yesterday! Thank you for saying it in a way I was unable to.
You don't have to sell me;I know who they are!This abstinence education isn't a bunch of lectures called called "commitment, society, fatherhood, motherhood and responsibility". It's "get it back in your pants because angry Jesus will make you burn." delivered on the government dime.
The whole thing is offensive in the extreme; Even more so because it's perpetrated by a group of hypocritical so-called conservatives like the bush crime family of junkies, murderers and philanderers, the senior republican senator for pedophillia and diddling and the man-whore shopping meth addled-head of the National Association of Evangelicals.
Well, yes, we could hope that. But naughty, be realistic - what average age do you think this would be effective for? And how many - again, realistically - between the ages 18 and 30 do you think will be going to sex education classes? Teaching an abstinence-only program to any age learner is probably worse than teaching nothing at all. Actually, as a taxpayer, yes, I do resent the additional earmarking for a program that has such a miniscule chance of success.I hope that someone will see this not as another way the government is trying to dictate this most personal part of their life and think about the choices that they are making which affect not only themselves but potential children and partners (Not to mention disgruntled taxpayers) in days to come.
Correct, abstinence is the only 100% effective means of preventing the spread of STDs and unwanted pregnancies. Any sex and health education program is going to be completely ineffective if it is not comprehensive, and especially if it is not given at an age-appropriate time. I'm disgusted that parents, for whatever reason, do not ensure that their children get such a comprehensive education. If the school is not willing or able to provide it, it is the parents' resonsibility. And the parents should KNOW what their children are or are not learning.Politics aside abstinence really is the only 100% way to prevent unwanted pregnancies. What's stupid is that this campaign will likely have a 0.001% effectiveness rate.
If they really want to make an impact in the way people treat sex outside of marriage they need to get this "abstinence is best" idea promoted by the media (Hollywood, television programs, music videos and the like).
Good luck with that.
Or are you saying that sex is a dynamic important part of human experience, except for the poor and disenfranchised who should live in a medieval fear and kept from the dangers of information about sex ?
Politics aside abstinence really is the only 100% way to prevent unwanted pregnancies. What's stupid is that this campaign will likely have a 0.001% effectiveness rate.
If they really want to make an impact in the way people treat sex outside of marriage they need to get this "abstinence is best" idea promoted by the media (Hollywood, television programs, music videos and the like).
Good luck with that.
No, not at all, but if they're in a poor family in their teens, why have a baby in the 9th thru 12th grades ? That sounds to me like giving up before even trying to make a go of it. Sandbagging/stacking the odds against any hope of a brighter future. Instead many will bring children into the world, force it down their parent's throats to help them deal with it and before you know it you have a family of 6 living in a single bedroom apartment ? Maybe even as many as 3 generations living under the same roof ?
Politics aside abstinence really is the only 100% way to prevent unwanted pregnancies. What's stupid is that this campaign will likely have a 0.001% effectiveness rate.
If they really want to make an impact in the way people treat sex outside of marriage they need to get this "abstinence is best" idea promoted by the media (Hollywood, television programs, music videos and the like).
Good luck with that.
Yeah, I get you. Isn't Europe better at this stuff than we are? What works? Does anyone know?And, of course there are the other ways to pleasure each other, that aren't abstenance, but have a 0% birthrate, and also 0% std transmission rate... like mutual masturbation (which can be OH SO HOT) that are simply not talked about, because it's sex, and sex is just bad.