New CDC Study Settles the Question: Which Sex Education Approach is Best for Children?

Jul 20, 2018 by Jill

by Sharon Slater, Family Watch International:

A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) goes a long way in settling an important question being bitterly debated in the U.S. and worldwide: abstinence education (AE) or comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)—which approach is best?

Biennially, the CDC releases a “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance” (YRBS) report—a snapshot of the range of the risk behaviors of America’s teens. In addition to asking youth questions regarding risk behaviors such as drug use or eating habits, the survey also asks teens about their sexual activity.

And the recently released YRBS report for 2017 has some very good news.

The 2017 YRBS survey found that a full 60.5 percent of U.S. high school teens reported they have never had sex! And the trend toward abstinence is going up, not down, with a 1.7 percent increase in the number of teens choosing abstinence since 2015. […]

In other words, the majority of U.S. teens are NOT having sex!

One of the most important findings of the CDC study was that “Students who had no sexual contact have a much lower prevalence of most health-risk behaviors compared with students who had sexual contact with only the opposite sex and students who had sexual contact with only the same sex or with both sexes.”

Conversely, students who reported they had had sexual contact, whether heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual, were found to have much higher rates of other risk behaviors related to violence, suicide, tobacco, alcohol, drug use, diet, and more.

The benefits of teen abstinence are well known. Certainly, abstinent teens are not going to contract an STD, get pregnant, suffer the health consequences of abortion, or be faced with raising a child alone.

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