[–] Uncle_Tractor 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Hmyeah ... either the UK is/was doing sex-ed really wrong, or lifesitenews has a very strong bias against sex-ed.
[–] Newtonip 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
lifesitenews dishonestly summarized the study. It took aim at a particular government program (that among other things distributed free contraceptives to students). It never concluded that sex-ed classes don't help. It even cites a study that indicates more comprehensive sex ed reduces teen pregnancy.
[–] menstreusel 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
we need teenage birth rates to increase if we are to survive the genocide.
[–] ZenAtheist 4 points 6 points 10 points (+10|-4) ago
I don't believe it. First off, someone could just make this all up - which is probably what this is. Secondly, of you think that anything a teacher says has any bearing on whether teens touch each other's sex bits, you're a bit out of touch.
[–] 1812-was-not-a-tie 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
I believe it. Sowell has been saying it for years: https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/01/23/factfree-liberals-part-iii-n1781571 But I admit that I am too lazy to track down the studies.
[–] Newtonip ago
I just read the original paper in question and this article is quite selective in their quoting. Also, it absolutely does not say sex-ed classes caused more teen pregnancy, it rather took aim at a particular government program.
If the author's suspicions are correct, then that program was a waste of money and easy access to contraceptives to teens increases teen pregnancy rates. They do not say that comprehensive sex-ed doesn't work.
For starters, these are not cuts to sex-ed but to a particular project, the Teen Pregnancy Strategy:
This was an initiative to expand access to information and give easy access to contraceptives to teenagers:
The access to information part consists of (not all of it is sex-ed classes):
Teens had sex-ed before the project and still had sex-ed after the cuts, this was something that came on top of that.
The authors seem to suspect that the giving teens the easy access to contraceptives is what was not helping:
There are other factors that could affect the fall of teen pregnancy and the authors recognize as such:
Their beef is with throwing money at this particular program not sex-ed in general. They cite another study that concluded that improvements in sexual education in schools reduced pregnancy rates:
In other studies, replacing comprehensive sex-ed with abstinence only sex-ed has correlated with increases in teen pregnancy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194801/