June 21, 2016|2:54 pm
A brand-new study shows that providing free condoms to teenagers worsens the problem it purports to solve. The finding is unsurprising provided that the solutions are “propaganda for the Sexual Revolution,” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse says.
In an extensive working paper entitled “The Incidental Fertility Effects of School Condom Distribution Programs,” University of Notre Dame researchers Kasey Buckle and Daniel Hungerman chart the effectiveness of distributing condoms to young students in order to curb teen pregnancy and minimize rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Their outcomes show that the 2 teen pregnancy and STD rates increased along with the presence of such condom distribution efforts.
As noted in a June 15 Vox article regarding the study, the push to make condoms a lot more accessible in school districts was largely in response to the alarming AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. Such a push appears to have actually backfired.
The Notre Dame researchers focused on school condom distribution programs, several of which needed counseling of some kind and various other solutions that did not. For those solutions that needed no counseling, they discovered a 10% rise in teen births and a notable improve in gonorrhea in women, one more 2.43 cases per 1,000 women.
Writing at National Review, scholar Dr. Michael brand-new hailed the study as an addition to the “impressive physique of research which shows that efforts to motivate contraceptive usage either through mandates, subsidies, or distribution are ineffective at ideal or counterproductive at worst.”
Other scholars suggest a even more nefarious agenda is operating here.
In an interview along with the Christian Post, author and Ruth Institute founder Dr. Morse said that she is not surprised at every one of that school-based sex-ed solutions are ineffective or generate unintended consequences, including that such solutions quantity to “government-funded propaganda for the Sexual Revolution.”
The government’s deliberate strategy is to “grab the youngsters hooked on sex prior to they are old sufficient to have actually mature judgment,” said Morse. They intentionally “convince them that self-command is impossible, and possibly unhealthy” and young individuals thereby “come to be participants in and supporters of the Sexual Revolution.”
With condoms readily available, Vox’s Sarah Kliff acknowledged in her piece that indeed “[i]t’s feasible that teens did engage in riskier behavior” yet was quick to point out the effectiveness of birth manage pills and wrote that the research paper is unable to answer why pregnancy rates flower in areas where condoms were provided out.
But as it likewise turns out, also as STDs rates keep on to rise teenagers are forgoing contraception. And communities now usually like sex education models that do not promote contraception.
An article in last month’s Journal of Adolescent Health analyzed data from the Focus for illness Control’s National Survey of Family Growth. The data showed that fewer communities are comfortable along with the kind of federally funded sex-ed programs, such as the Obama administration’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program, that normalize teen sex, demonstrate usage of contraception, and make usage of contraceptives attractive.
The CDC data likewise revealed that despite such efforts also sexually energetic teens are not making use of contraception.
According to the CDC’s National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, because Obama’s TPP regimen began, sexually energetic teens, especially 12th graders, are demonstrably much less thinking about making use of contraceptives.
Additional findings in the CDC’s survey portend great news for exactly what is known as Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) education, a model that promotes abstinence. To the surprise of some, roughly 60% of teenagers are waiting for sex, the highest percentage to date.
In a June twenty press release from ASCEND, a DC-based abstinence advocacy group, founder and CEO Valerie Huber said, “The research continues to show that the TPP program, while well intentioned, is not effective, and appears to actually improve risk for vulnerable teens.”
“Taxpayer dollars would certainly be much better invested on SRA programs, which provide youth the skills and short article to Stay clear of every one of sexual risk. The brand-new data in the CDC’s YRBS report discloses that the SRA approach resonates along with an increasing lot of teens, and it is uniquely able to insight sexually energetic youth return to an area of health,” Huber said.
