Times Online - Guest contributors (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
At some point the Labour Party will have to decide: does it believe in religious freedom or does it believe in utilitarian government? Unless it does, it is heading for an almighty collision.
the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Around two-thirds of Bristol parents believe their teenagers have no desire to discuss sex, a survey has revealed. The Bristol Teenage Pregnancy Partnership (BTTP) says their research reveals a huge gap between the amount of information adolescents want about sex and the amount they actually receive, with teenagers increasingly turning to the internet, friends and the [...]
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rep. Nancy Pelosi made history this weekend, doing something that no politician has been able to do in the United States since...well, forever. Pelosi was able to work the U.S. House to pass a health reform bill, by a vote of 220-215 , that brings this country closer to the precipice of national health care than we've ever been before. Is the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962 by technical...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Parents will face fines if they remove 15-year-old children from sex education lessons as they become part of the national curriculum for the first time. Lessons in relationships and sex will begin at five, with prescribed content for each age group. Parents will still be able to withdraw children on moral and religious grounds, but this right – which currently extends until students are 19 –...
Mock, Paper, Scissors (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yes, it is still happening, and I know it is hard to believe, but the so-called Abstenece-only sex education programs that were forced upon a generation of America’s youth during the Chimpy McStagger Reign of Error (and then renewed once the Dims took over, go figure), have been shown once again to be remarkably ineffective [...]
Paul Owen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this week, Ed Balls, the Education Secretary (that isn't what he calls himself but it is essentially what he is) announced that 15 year olds will have to have mandatory sex education. Cue howls of anguish from the likes of the Catholic Church and various Muslim groups who promised to fight the proposals. Now I am no fan of Mr Balls, as a very cursory inspection of this site will quickly reveal....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sex education programs that encourage teenagers to delay sexual activity but also teach them how to reduce their chances of getting pregnant or a sexually transmitted disease cut risky sexual behavior, increase condom use and lower the chances of getting the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I hope the voters' rebellion in talent shows such as The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing will be replicated at next year's general election, ( Comment , 6 November). Who knows, just as TV viewers don't like being told who to vote for, perhaps they'll also turn on the media which has already decided that David Cameron will be the winner. Laura Marcus Leek, Staffordshire • Noticing the dysfunctional...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The reliable way to teach kids about the birds and the bees? Comprehensive sex education. That's the conclusion of an independent panel that reviewed the glut of research out there on sex education and abstinence-only programs in a study released Friday. It found solid proof of its effectiveness in "reducing a number of self-reported [sexual] risk behaviors." No surprise there, right? After...
The Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Risk-reduction sex education puts teens at less risk for pregnancy, sexually-transmittted disease.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sex education programs that encourage teens to delay sexual activity but also teach them how to reduce their chances of getting pregnant or a sexually transmitted disease cut risky sexual behavior, increase condom use and lower the chances of getting the AIDS virus and other infections, an indepe...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sex education programs that encourage teens to delay sexual activity but also teach them how to reduce their chances of getting pregnant or a sexually transmitted disease cut risky sexual behavior, increase condom use and lower the chances of getting the AIDS virus and other infections, an indepe...
Catholic Commentary (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The General Secretary of my trade union has a little paragraph in The Times today - utterly illogical and rather muddled it is, to say the least. I rather suspect that the leaders of other teacher unions were a bit more savvy than she was, and did not let themselves get drawn in to commenting. With one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, whatever we are doing at the moment we are not...
rhetorically speaking.. (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Cath Elliot at Liberal Conspiracy sketches out the details of the ridiculously minimal reform of sex education and touches on the knee-jerk responses falling from the mouths of self-appointed family values campaigners. It's never been quite clear how these supposedly moral crusaders square their morality with a track record of - with the full support of certain newspapers - lying, transparently and...
A Very British Dude (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ed "Balls" has removed the rights of parents to take their children out of sex education classes after the deligtful little poppets are 15 years old. Now clearly the state says you can fuck your girlfriend when she's 16, so it makes sense that she at least knows where babies come from before her birthday. Normally, the only people who object to sex education are religious lunatics but in...
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