UPDATE: Joee has the whole article on his blog.
Stammers comments on a research report (available free online), published in the same issue by Henderson et al., looking at the impact of a sex-ed programme on "registered conceptions and terminations." The study found that the sex-ed had no measurable impact on these outcomes. Stammers comments:
Henderson and colleagues stress the need for more comprehensive approaches that incorporate the influence of parents on sexual experience in teenagers, and to improve the future life opportunities for vulnerable young people. The false assumption that “young teens will have sex anyway” is an insult to many young people who have the capacity to rise to a far more effective challenge than just “use a condom every time.”He also makes the pertinent observation:
The statement of "competing interests", tells us that Stammers is a trustee of Family Education Trust and Challenge Teams UK; charities that provide abstinence centred sex education packages to secondary schools in the UK. He is also a (volunteer) web doctor for Love for Life, the largest provider of abstinence centred sex education to schools in Northern Ireland.Blanket assertions that abstinence programmes “don’t work” abound.w10 Ironically, however, the only randomised trial of school sex education identified by the SHARE team to use clinical data on pregnancies was of an abstinence only programme that resulted in a significant reduction of pregnancies.
(Reference: Cabezon C, Vigil P, Rojas I, Leiva ME, Riquelme R, Aranda W, et al. Adolescent pregnancy prevention: an abstinence-centred randomized controlled intervention in a Chilean public high school. J Adolesc Health 2005;36:64-9.)
What a great bloke!
2 comments:
Why all this emphasis on Sex Ed, when the statistics show that it is failing, as teenage pregnancies and STDs continue to increase in the UK.
Programmes such as 'Here I am' which are supposedly suitable for Catholic Schools take away the God given right for parents to be primary educators of their children. They start in Year 5 and are repeated and expanded upon in year 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 and 13. You would think we were training our children for a career in gynaecology.
Parents are quite capable of teaching their children about conjugal love, even the government's own statistics support this. Why all this emphasis on Sex Ed?
A fact that all parents should know is that when children are taught about sex by a teacher or a nurse then any further questions are brought to them not the parents and as they grow older they will turn to family planning and abortion clinics - a clever bit of social engineering, I believe. Also a teacher may depart from the approved material and add their own beliefs, life style practices and inappropriate material. Children almost always express a preference for their parents to explain sexual matters to them. So come on lets start a Parents Demand Their Rights Back campaign. Ban all Primary School Sex Education. Remember he who shouts loudest and is most aggressive is always right - just look at the Homosexual Lobby and SOR. We need to fight to protect our children as we will surely answer to God if we don't.
What?!!!! The silence is deafening!!!
Doesn't anyone other than Elizabeth have anything to say about this post? Huh? Are you blind or merely lilly-livered.
Are we Catholics and others of good will and moral standards all OK then with the filthy, pornographic, innocence stealing Child Abuse called SEx-Ed thinly veiled as some sort of benevolent 'be healthy - eat an apple a day' PHSE class study in our Catholic schools - allegedly condoned by our Bishops!
Here is someone (the article's author) who believes in our youth, believes they are capable of real love not the sick-sex that is portrayed as love in the media. He believes that our youth CAN accept the challenge to be chaste so that they will have a chance at happy and lifelong marriage with all the benefits to the couple never mind society at large that healthy marriage brings.
Catholics should be the first to congratulate him and his team and recommend his youth chastity programmes to their school Governors.
Get your heads out of the sand for Heaven's sake - reclaim our Catholic Schools, our supernatural dignity and the Holy Mystery of our Faith. HAND ON THESE GEMS AND DIAMONDS TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
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