Politics > Politics-USA > Measuring the impact of Republican Bush's $175 million per year "abstinence" scam
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"Harry Hope" |
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22 Jul 2007 08:04:54 AM |
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Measuring the impact of Republican Bush's $175 million per year "abstinence" scam |
From The Washington Post, 7/22/07:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101275.html?hpid=topnews
Teen Sex Rates Stop Falling, Data Show
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 22, 2007; Page A01
After decreasing steadily and significantly for more than a decade,
the percentage of teenagers having intercourse began to plateau in
2001 and has failed to budge since then, despite the intensified focus
in recent years on encouraging sexual abstinence, according to new
analyses of data from a large federal survey.
The halt in the downward trend coincided with an increase in federal
spending on programs focused exclusively on encouraging sexual
abstinence until marriage, several experts noted.
Congress is currently debating funding for such efforts, which receive
about $175 million a year in federal money and have come under fire
from some quarters for being ineffective.
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'Nuff said
Harry
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| User: "All Weather Patriot" |
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| Title: Re: Measuring the impact of Republican Bush's $175 million per year "abstinence" scam |
22 Jul 2007 12:24:44 PM |
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In article <bfl6a3hjppnf1n64mal6gp5l0kkmqm5dfe@4ax.com>, Harry Hope
<rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Washington Post, 7/22/07:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR200707210127
5.html?hpid=topnews
Teen Sex Rates Stop Falling, Data Show
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 22, 2007; Page A01
After decreasing steadily and significantly for more than a decade,
the percentage of teenagers having intercourse began to plateau in
2001 and has failed to budge since then, despite the intensified focus
in recent years on encouraging sexual abstinence, according to new
analyses of data from a large federal survey.
The halt in the downward trend coincided with an increase in federal
spending on programs focused exclusively on encouraging sexual
abstinence until marriage, several experts noted.
Congress is currently debating funding for such efforts, which receive
about $175 million a year in federal money and have come under fire
from some quarters for being ineffective.
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'Nuff said
Harry
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NO, TOO MUCH LEFT UNSAID. FROM WHENCE COMES THE NEW CROP OF BABIES TO
MAN THE TRENCHES AND THE BATTLESHIPS? DOES IT MATTER WHETHER THEY ARE
LEGITIMATE -- OR BASTARDS? THEY CAN BLEED ALIKE.
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