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Educare all'astinenza non serve

L'amministrazione Bush ha fortemente voluto programmi di educazione sessuale "abstinence only" (finanziati con 50 milioni di dollari all'anno), ossia che educassero i giovani ad evitare rapporti sessuali fino al matrimonio. In questi programmi l'astinenza era la sola propposta per evitare gravidanze indesiderate e malattie sessuali.

Ora un rapporto voluto dal U.S. Department of Health and Human Services dimostra la totale inefficacia di questo approccio:

Findings indicate that youth who were assigned to the Title V abstinence education “program group” were no more likely than youth who were assigned to the “services as usual” control group to have abstained from sex. [...] Contrary to concerns raised by critics of abstinence education, program group youth were no more likely to have engaged in unprotected sex than control group youth.