President Obama 's new budget would eliminate most money for abstinence-only sex education and shift it to teen pregnancy prevention — a U-turn in what has been more than a decade of sex education policy in the USA. Obama's budget proposes almost $178 million for teen pregnancy prevention, including $110 million for community-based programs. About 75% of that is for programs proven to have delayed sex and increased contraceptive use or reduced teen pregnancy. The other 25% could be for "innovative" programs.
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While I don't believe we should abandon abstinence education, I also don't believe we should focus only on abstinence. The way I see it, it's like military training. You don't just train a solider on the most effective weapon in his arsenal, you train him on all of them, in case he ever finds himself without that first weapon. Same logic applies here. We should keep pushing abstinence education, but we should also push contraceptives and other preventative measures, to make sure our kids have as much information as possible. We can;t control what they are going to do, but we can try and guide them down the right path, and give them some defenses in case they stray from that path.
USA Today
While I don't believe we should abandon abstinence education, I also don't believe we should focus only on abstinence. The way I see it, it's like military training. You don't just train a solider on the most effective weapon in his arsenal, you train him on all of them, in case he ever finds himself without that first weapon. Same logic applies here. We should keep pushing abstinence education, but we should also push contraceptives and other preventative measures, to make sure our kids have as much information as possible. We can;t control what they are going to do, but we can try and guide them down the right path, and give them some defenses in case they stray from that path.
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