Astinence-Only Education?

[IAN 2411]

Lucy I might disappear at times but I always come back. I have taken a little out of my post because I might have been guilty of presuming the worst intent.

Yeah, hearsay and gut feeling are always better than statistics that prove a correlation. Maybe it does not hold true in the UK, but in Switzerland the number of teenage pregnancies has fallen constantly over the last 20 years with the increase of sex ed. Besides, sex ed isn't just about knowing to put on a rubber, it's also about empowerment.

That is just statistics and statistics are always out of date before they get published. Then again maybe Switzerland had a bigger problem than the UK before it started the program. You have given no one the full picture of how bad your country is or was, only how bad it is everywhere else.

I don't think you have actually talked to teenagers for a while, or have you? Because those I know are mostly more or less responsible young guys and gals and the fucktards that make it to the media because of their being - no surprise there - fucktards are a small, but overrepresented minority.

Let me think, I have a 16, 19 21 and 26 year old daughters is that close enough? Do not make suppositions about other people if you know damn all about them. I think I know a little more about English teenage girls at least, than any person from another country.

Yeah, they learn a lot from their peers. But most of that is crap.

So that we all know what field we are playing on, who exactly do you mean by their peers? Also are you talking collectively for the world or just Switzerland?

Regards IAN 2411{lillirose}