News: Bush Wastes $176 Million Tax Dollars in Failed Effort to Stop People from Fucking
From MSNBC.COM:
Abstinence students still having sex
Study tracked 2,057 young people in government-funded programs
WASHINGTON - 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.
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 years and nine months, 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.
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Aaron — On 4-13-2007 at 12:54 pm
Great. So the American people really needed these studies to show that (gasp) teenagers have biological urges too? You know, this country creates more than its share of pollution - Maybe we should have ten-year billion-dollar program and studies to see if it’s possible to have teenagers take less dumps per week. We could kill two birds with one stone if we could just get them to stop eating somehow.