>>>1) We must punish women for having sex outside of marriage, and;
>>>2) Women are only walking wombs, not suitable to make any kind of important decision because...well....they're women.
>>>[Removing tongue from cheek]
>>>
>>>These are also the same people who don't want ANY kind of Sex education in schools even though study after study after study has proven that early (and correct) sex education raises that age of first sexual experience and lowers incidents of SDI and pregnancy.
>>>
>>>Go fig....
>>>Education works
>>>
>>Does it?
>>There has been sex education in school systems for decades and the out of wedlock birth rate has soared.
>>The knee-jerk assumption that if something needs to be taught to kids, it needs to be taught in school systems is way off base.
>>Trying to make school systems cures for dysfunctional families - among other things- has led to rising school budgets and declining academic achievement.
>>The school systems here are overloaded with nonsense like sex education, day care -anti-bullying sessions, anti-bias sessions, grief counselling, ad nauseum.
>>Incidentally, many of the teachers teaching this nonsense are divorced single parents.
>
>I can only speak to what's being taught in Texas, which is abstinence. And we all know how well 'just say no' works and yes, Texas has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country. Please do note that I used the qualifier 'correct' education.

Pretty sure I've mentioned this here before. I read a terrific book a few years back by a sociologist who visited several communities where there'd been controversy over sex education. What she discovered was that people's attitudes about what should be taught varied with their view of when their kids were likely to marry. People who expected their kids to finish their educations and get established in careers before marriage generally supported comprehensive sex ed. People who expect their kids to marry young--right out of high school or soon thereafter--wanted no sex ed or abstinence only. Makes perfect sense if you think about and it makes sense of the content of the arguments.

Tamar