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Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane
Lurkette, I've Googled for the article but, as of yet, I haven't been able to find it. Perhaps I was dreaming. Can we pretend I never mentioned it?
Cheers. AS
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Perhaps these are the studies you are referring to. I can't find the actual studies, just references to them.
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The questionable value of sex education
The increased availability of the pill and sex education in the USA had actually run parallel with increases in child pregnancies amongst the US school population.[31]
Research suggests that although in the USA contraceptive education resulted in gains in sexual knowledge, it also led to appreciable shifts towards promiscuity.[32]
(31) Alan Guttmacher Institute. Teenage Pregnancy: The Problem that hasn't gone away. 1981
(32) Richard D. Has Sex Education failed Our Children? Pomona Ca: Focus on the Family, 1990
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