![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ensuing 40-year squabble pitting sex education (which at best has marginal effects on pregnancy rates) versus “abstinence-only” preaching (which is completely worthless) suppressed crucial realities surrounding what interest mislabel “teen pregnancy.”Īs the culture war over sex-versus-abstinence education intensified in the 1980s, poverty and birth rates among teenagers reversed their previous declines and increased markedly. Conservatives countered with fabricated sex-ed horror-tales and pushed sexual “abstinence.”įrom then on, it has been lie versus lie. ![]() Unfortunately, liberals chose to promote sex education by slandering young people, who had cut their birth rates 50% on their own, as ignorant and irresponsible. The liberal solution? Sex education, which should be a basic human right, not a cure-all pushed with fear tactics. Then, 1970s liberals, aping Republicans’ fear-mongerings over crime, drugs, and racial integration, launched their own phony moral crusade branding “ teen pregnancy” a new “epidemic.” That’s how “win-win” public policies succeed. Young women’s college enrollments rose by 130%.Great Society programs sharply reduced youth poverty.Two factors explain why 1960s teenagers reduced childbearing dramatically: Not sex education, which barely existed back then. The teen birth decline was well underway before California legalized abortion in 1967. In 1960, one in 10 California women ages 15-19 gave birth. ![]()
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