The hooting and hollering by health policy officials that children must be provided with school-based sex education programs in order to properly manage their sexuality has unravelled.
A comprehensive and rigorous study reviewing school-based interventions on sex education, combining peer-reviewed data from more than 55,000 young people from around the world, has found that sex education programs for youth are useless because they have no effect on the incidence of pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) or HIV.
The review, released in April, 2016, was conducted by The Cochrane Library, which is internationally recognized as the highest standard in evidence based health care research. http://www.cochrane.org/CD006417/INFECTN_school-based-interventions-preventing-hiv-sexually-transmitted-infections-and-pregnancy-adolescents.
The Cochrane review of sex education programs used only randomly controlled trials from Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The findings of this review were different from other studies on sex education because previous studies had been based on the self-reported behaviours of young people, which are prone to bias and are notoriously unreliable. In contrast, the Cochrane review only included studies featuring objective, measurable, biological outcomes from records or tests of pregnancy, STD and HIV.
Further, the Cochrane review discovered the startling effect that education or training has as an effective measure for improving adolescent sexual outcomes – especially for girls. That is, staying in school is an effective contraceptive!
Health policy officials who promote sex education programs as a way to change attitudes, behaviour and social norms, however, may have another objective in mind about sexuality, which they are not disclosing when insisting on these programs. The programs are providing pornography to children and teaching abnormal sex practices. Health officials want to normalize homosexuality, transgenderism and sexual promiscuity to change our children’s values. Another study should be conducted to determine how successful they are in this regard.
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