It isn't a matter of "Condoms" vs "Abstinance". You cannot force your kid to use Condoms or use Abstinance. All you can do is educate them.
It is "Teaching Condoms and Abstinance" vs "Teaching Abstinance" that you have the option about. Claims that "Abstinance is 100% effective" are bullshit -- the technique of Abstinance has a failure rate, namely the chance that someone following it fails and has sex.
Most Condom failure is user error. A small fraction is manufacturing error. So error-free Condom use using perfectly manufactured Condoms is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy! *_*
The real value that matters: How effective is "Teaching Abstinance and nothing else" at preventing STDs?
Note that, currently, 75% of adult Americans have been infected with HPV. Yes, you probably have been infected with HPV. And HPV is often symptomless. So if your daughter never has sex until she gets married, but the man she marries has had sex with someone before he met your daughter, your daughter still can catch HPV!
Unless you believe your daughter deserves to die from cancer if she disobeys you, or marries someone who has ever had sex with anyone before...
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