Abstinence Pros And Cons

Congress has spent more than 1.5 billion dollars in trying to make the rule of having teenagers to promote abstinence until marriage which has been taken into effect into more than 25 years. In April 2007 a federally funded program which is now called Title V abstinence until marriage program was released. Federal has said that the policy was very ineffective. Mathematica’s evaluation towards the abstinence only until marriage program was clearly ineffective and they have found no evidence that they increase sexual abstinence which was the purposed of the whole program. The abstinence program has no impact on teen sexual behavior in November 2007 a reporter called Dr. Douglas Kirby in which he researches which programs would work in preventing

sexually transmitted disease and preventing teen pregnancy and which he also included the transmission of HIV. According to the British Medical journal which was reviewed in July 2007 in which they have examine 13 abstinence programs with about 16,000 students. They have concluded that the abstinence program was ineffective in changing the behaviors of teens which included the rate of vaginal sex, the number of partners, and whether they used a condom. They also concluded that the recent declines in the U.S rate of teen pregnancy is mostly likely due to the usage of contraception rather than the decrease of sexual activity. The virginity pledges have promised young people to wait until marriage to have sex which is becoming very popular in schools and communities. There was research that virginity pledges found that select group of young people did delay the onset of sexual intercourse for at least 18 months but they also have stated that those who did took the virginity pledge were one third less likely to use contraception when they have become sexually active than the peers who did not took the virginity pledge. During research they have found that pledgers who do engage in sexual behavior are most likely to get a sexually transmitted disease than those who did not took the pledge. Not all pledgers were less likely to use a condom but they would also not seek medical treatment to make sure they don’t have a sexually transmitted disease. In the year 2003 in the state of Pennsylvania that there was a largely ineffective to be able to reduce the onset of sexual activity among teens. Overall in the research states have reported that they should start to teens in the seventh grade in the abstinence program and programs for urban youth in abstinence should be informed in the sixth grade. After the eighth grade