Obama Blocks Study Showing Abstinence Education Works

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Aug 23, 2010, 5:20:11 PM8/23/10

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Obama Blocks Study Showing Abstinence Education Works
The Obama administration is, once again, entangled in controversy over sex education. Yet this time, it is not about what the administration is trying to implement, but about what it is withholding – and apparently for political reasons. A taxpayer-funded study that indicates parental and adolescent support of abstinence education is not being released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as it does not support the administration’s objective – or that of vocal “safe sex” activists – of eliminating all abstinence-education funding. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of HHS, funded a survey of 1,000 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 and their parents, in order to measure parent-adolescent communication and adolescent attitudes toward sex and abstinence. The American Public Health Association’s (APHA) website reveals the results of the study: “Adjusting for all other factors in the model, parent and peer factors are more consistently associated with differences in adolescent attitudes about sex and abstinence than are measures of adolescent exposure to sex and abstinence topics in a class or program. Additionally, parent attitudes are more important in influencing adolescent views than the level of parent communication with their adolescent.”