Abstinence Education DOES Work

from Agape Press
by Bill Fancher

Defenders of abstinence programs are attacking a new study that says such programs don't work.

A new study from Harvard University is reporting that abstinence pledges do not work because most teens break them within a year.

But Dr. Janice Crouse of the Beverly LaHaye Institute says the report is suspect, based on its makeup and the methods used to gather data. She says the statistics are based on ten-year-old information, and trends have changed greatly since abstinence programs were established.

"All the trends are turning in ways that have all the experts just kind of shaking their heads, because they said that this was impossible, that these trends were so firmly entrenched that there was no way to turn them around," she shares.

"And yet, after abstinence programs have become more widespread, suddenly we're seeing changes in behavioral patterns that people said couldn't be changed."

Crouse calls the report just another typical liberal attack on abstinence programs. [They don't want abstinence programs to work.....they would have to give up their promiscuity and sinful lifestyles. They don't want to hear the word "NO". NO NO NO NO NO NO NO~~Then refuse to have the label rebellious attached....] "Every single time you start looking at the fine print and you find that there's not really a problem there," she says.

{{{And yet liberals often try and debunk abstinence programs, says Crouse, because there are millions of dollars in federal funds at stake. [mea culpa, it's GREED. I SHOULD have known.....] from Agape Press by Allie Martin}}}

"In this particular case, the Harvard study is based on data that's over ten years old. [Yet, if the abstinence researchers tried to use 10 year old data, believe me Harvard, et.al. would be SCREAMING FROM THE LIBERAL MEDIA about the inaccuracy of it.]

Then, the report relies completely on students' responses, and those are notoriously unreliable -- and they even point that out."

Crouse notes that both teen pregnancies and teen abortions are down -- "and evidence indicates these trends are related to increased abstinence among teens," she says.

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