Abstinence-Only Programs Are Flawed

Starting from high school is usually a neurotic experience of all teenagers. Their workload became heavier, teachers and parents became more persistent, and the pressure on adaptation increased. So many teenagers tend to yield to their companion pressure and engage in activities they do not normally do, especially sexual behavior. Many teenagers believe that sexual activity is cool. Otherwise it will be treated as a wanderer. As more and more teenagers become sexually active, more and more school programs are being implemented to encourage abstinence education.

In addition to being ineffective, researchers and doctors say that abstinence education is a "moral problem" that violates medical ethics and hurts young people. In the review of the evidence of the abstinence program announced at the Journal of Adolescent Health, researchers suggest that policies and programs that provide abstinence as a single option for unmarried adolescent children are scientifically and morally I also conclude that there is a defect. While helping the young people to delay sexual intercourse, the AOUM program has made stereotyping gender of health hazards and has hardly succeeded in leaving young people of sexual minorities. Prohibition of sexual activity is theoretically to completely prevent infection of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, but in reality the AOUM program often can not prevent these consequences.

The impact of the increase in abstinence education is still a problem. Studies that have not published reports on abstinence to date have found a consistent and important plan to delay sexual intercourse. In 2007, according to the commissioned research by the US Congress, junior high school students who participated in the abstinence education program found that there was the possibility of having sex (and contraceptive) in the same period as the youth who did not participate in abstinence. Supporters supporters began when this study is still too narrow to claim that there is a flaw and the abstinence course is still in its early stages and other studies are positive for these studies It shows that there is an effect.

In March 2010, Congress enacted a five-year "personal responsibility education program" that is a federal-funded program designed as an alternative to Title V's abstinence program. Its purpose is to educate young people for abstinence and contraception and prepare for adults "by teaching" healthy interpersonal relationships, economic knowledge, parent-child communication and decision-making "(38). Support for intervention based on educational programs and evidence

Since the 1980 's, policy makers have used important taxpayer funds to fund the prohibition program. There is evidence that abstinence programs are ineffective, but federal funds for these programs continue today. But in 2010 and 2011, Congress revoked two thirds of the existing abstinence program, including the community-based drunkards education grant program and the abstinence fund as part of the Youth Family Life Act . Congress funded two new sex education programs to support evidence-based programs and an integrated approach to preventing unwanted teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. In addition, Congress funded prevention education for HIV / STI at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Youth and Health.