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First, I stated that I had a sex-ed class in the 5th grade. that's not the proper age to show students how to put on condoms IMO.
Second, how in the hell can you assume that you know how I shop? I've tried the equate toothpaste and it sucks. I never saw an advertisement that enticed me to try it. It was cheaper. I may have Crest toothepaste, but I have hill country fair chips in my pantry. (which is a knock off created by the local grocery store-and they taste great.) I have NUMEROUS items and products in my house that are not "name-brand" items that I have seen commercials about. I'm not going to discuss my entire life-style. But I'll bet that the majority of people tend to lean towards the products they personally feel are better than the other. They may by a name-brand product and decide it's shit and perfer the non-name brand product because it's just as good and cheaper.... Price tends to drive my shopping these days, not advertising.
It sounds like you're rather uneducated on this topic.I dont know that it caused it to rise, but it has done little if anything to prevent it. And as I think back to high school class it did not help me and the Wife to be that much As we followed there instructions and she still got pregnant, and yes a condom was used properly. There is only one fool proof plan to avoid getting knocked up.Boy's, keep it in your pants, Girls, keep you need to hold a penny with your knees. I also saw no comments on the fact that thees kids are coming down with the clap and syphilis. This with pregnancy can be blamed on planed parenthood with there policy of keeping thees kids sexual activity a secret from the parents. It will get better when they cut funds from planned parenthood.
First, I stated that I had a sex-ed class in the 5th grade. that's not the proper age to show students how to put on condoms IMO.
Second, how in the hell can you assume that you know how I shop? I've tried the equate toothpaste and it sucks. I never saw an advertisement that enticed me to try it. It was cheaper. I may have Crest toothepaste, but I have hill country fair chips in my pantry. (which is a knock off created by the local grocery store-and they taste great.) I have NUMEROUS items and products in my house that are not "name-brand" items that I have seen commercials about. I'm not going to discuss my entire life-style. But I'll bet that the majority of people tend to lean towards the products they personally feel are better than the other. They may by a name-brand product and decide it's shit and perfer the non-name brand product because it's just as good and cheaper.... Price tends to drive my shopping these days, not advertising.
Sure, you can argue about what is the optimal age to teach kids about condom use, but not about whether it should be taught at all.
Second, you just proved I know exactly how you shop. I stated "You're picking the popular brands, believing they are popular because of advertising, and you're trying the cheap store-version." You then go on to state you use a name-brand toothpaste, and purchase cheaper store-versions of other things.
NEVERTHELESS, the reason you reached for crest is because you thought it was better in some way than the next brand. Similarly, advertising rarely makes people jump out of their seats because they must purchase that product at that moment. No, it works by familiarizing someone to the name, giving them subtle reasons to buy it, and hoping they recognize their product the next time they're in the store.
Again, advertising works and tremendously increases profit, regardless of what you think.
It sounds like you're rather uneducated on this topic.I dont know that it caused it to rise, but it has done little if anything to prevent it. And as I think back to high school class it did not help me and the Wife to be that much As we followed there instructions and she still got pregnant, and yes a condom was used properly. There is only one fool proof plan to avoid getting knocked up.Boy's, keep it in your pants, Girls, keep you need to hold a penny with your knees. I also saw no comments on the fact that thees kids are coming down with the clap and syphilis. This with pregnancy can be blamed on planed parenthood with there policy of keeping thees kids sexual activity a secret from the parents. It will get better when they cut funds from planned parenthood.
Planned parenthood, along with ALL MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND DOCTORS, do not share sexual or mental health issues with parents. This has consistently been shown to be beneficial for the minors. Giving kids reasons to avoid seeking help is a good way to make a bad situation worse.
Your anecdotal "reasoning" is painful to read. It doesn't matter what you personally would do or not do. Nor does your insignificant experience in this world account for anything compared to evidence based understanding.It sounds like you're rather uneducated on this topic.
Planned parenthood, along with ALL MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND DOCTORS, do not share sexual or mental health issues with parents. This has consistently been shown to be beneficial for the minors. Giving kids reasons to avoid seeking help is a good way to make a bad situation worse.
No, it has not. it may be ok for your kids to run around and screw everything that walks (if you have any) And you are also wrong about mental health or any other Dr.'s not sharing treatment records with parents. Kids wont avoid seeking help. We did not avoid it any way. And even if that were the case Planned Parenthood has done nothing to slow teen pregnancy, and have done even worse in regards to VD. the only thing planed parent hood is let the kids know ware they can abort babies, and treat VD. Nothing else. By the way, they kill more black babies then any other race. Ware is the out rage ? It will be all better when they are defunded.
Your anecdotal "reasoning" is painful to read. It doesn't matter what you personally would do or not do. Nor does your insignificant experience in this world account for anything compared to evidence based understanding.It sounds like you're rather uneducated on this topic.
Planned parenthood, along with ALL MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND DOCTORS, do not share sexual or mental health issues with parents. This has consistently been shown to be beneficial for the minors. Giving kids reasons to avoid seeking help is a good way to make a bad situation worse.
No, it has not. it may be ok for your kids to run around and screw everything that walks (if you have any) And you are also wrong about mental health or any other Dr.'s not sharing treatment records with parents. Kids wont avoid seeking help. We did not avoid it any way. And even if that were the case Planned Parenthood has done nothing to slow teen pregnancy, and have done even worse in regards to VD. the only thing planed parent hood is let the kids know ware they can abort babies, and treat VD. Nothing else. By the way, they kill more black babies then any other race. Ware is the out rage ? It will be all better when they are defunded.
The reason that the governing bodies of the medical world protect minors regarding these issues is because evidence shows it decreases bad outcomes. Plain and simple.
Effect of mandatory parental notification [JAMA. 2002]
Limiting Confidentiality of Adolescent Health Services
Access to medical care for adolescents
"The most common reason for missing care was not wanting a parent to know (35%)."
Assessment of health needs and willingness to utilize health care resources of adolescents
Confidentiality in health care.[JAMA. 1993]
"A majority of adolescents have concerns they wish to keep confidential and a striking percentage report they would not seek health services because of these concerns"
The Journal of Pediatrics, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Journal of the American Medical Association, researching this very issue across thousands of children, prove you wrong. The question you need to ask yourself is whether you are so stubborn as to reject all of these evidence based scientific studies for your unsupported anecdotal reasoning.
Access to confidential healthcare has not been shown to increase risk behavior. This was the ridiculous argument ignorant parents posed as the reason they were against the HPV vaccine. Vaccination against STD does not increase risky sexual behavior any more than providing confidential medical help. What it does is provide a service for a minor that would otherwise suffer in silence. Your choice.
Successful abstinence-based programs (yes, they do exist) dont necessarily make their teenage participants more likely to save themselves for marriage. But they make them more likely to save themselves for somebody, which in turn increases the odds that their adult sexual lives will be a source of joy rather than sorrow.
Their research, which looks at sexual behavior among contemporary young adults, finds a significant correlation between sexual restraint and emotional well-being, between monogamy and happiness and between promiscuity and depression.
So I guess the sex ed is doing a bang up job then right ? the only thing that can be done is for PARENTS to teach there kids impulse control.You know, actually be a parent. Turn off there PS2, take away there cell phone and TALK to them. As for getting medical records Except for planned parenthood and there affiliated clinics, most Dr.'s will bring parents into the fold. Planed parenthood wont because they need the money. I will shoot some more numbers your way in a sec. I dont want to overwhelm you.
So I guess the sex ed is doing a bang up job then right ? the only thing that can be done is for PARENTS to teach there kids impulse control.You know, actually be a parent. Turn off there PS2, take away there cell phone and TALK to them. As for getting medical records Except for planned parenthood and there affiliated clinics, most Dr.'s will bring parents into the fold. Planed parenthood wont because they need the money. I will shoot some more numbers your way in a sec. I dont want to overwhelm you.
You see the difference between you and I is that I look at the evidence to draw conclusions, whereas you believe the mere act of reproducing gives you the ability to draw conclusions and then selectively pick which evidence you want to ignore and which you want to post as supporting your pre-conceived ideas.
Take the "evidence" in your latest post. The first is an opinion written by apparently no one, and posted to a blog. Note how opinion is not fact. Now let's look at actual CDC facts, as alluded to in your second article, which can be found here:
CDC - Trends in STD Surveillance, 2009 -
Did you bother to actually read the things you posted?
"Gonorrhea: The national gonorrhea rate is at the lowest level ever recorded.
"- Chlamydia: Continuing increases in chlamydia diagnoses likely reflect expanded screening efforts, and not necessarily a true increase in disease burden; this means that more people are protecting their health by getting tested and being linked to treatment. This is critical, since chlamydia is one of the most widespread STDs in the United States.
- Syphilis: For the first time in five years, reported syphilis cases did not increase among women overall. Likewise, cases of congenital syphilis (transmitted from mother to infant) did not increase for the first time in four years."
Your article, rehashed from the CDC, then goes on to say the horrible effects of not seeking help once an STD is acquired. That law you dislike so much that I already proved was beneficial is about adolescents able to be treated after they have acquired such an STD to AVOID those later complications.
There is no substitute for good parenting, but once your kid already has an STD, every scrap of evidence we has shows that they are better off being able to be freely treated for it.
Keep something else in mind: while your ridiculous opinion article that is posted to a blog and lists no author is making all kinds of unsupported claims that directly contradict the center for disease control, even those claims have nothing to do with the laws surrounding confidentiality of adolescents, which were enacted years away from any bad statistic they use.
In short: I've already proven that privacy for adolescents is beneficial to that age group as a whole, and such ideas are supported by every major medical organization in the country. There is also absolutely no evidence that shows the enactment of these laws has negatively affected STD rates or increased risky sexual behavior. This is evidence based fact. Do you still hold to your unsupported opinion at the cost of your child's health?
First, they were posted to blogs as reported by the CDC. STD's are up. Googl STD among teens and you will get all you need in big letters so you get it. From 1996 to now STD's are up. Then do it state by state and you will see it is up as well, especially among African Americans who also lead in abortions. The long and short is this, Abstinence training in school- Dont work, Sexual education in school- dont work. What is a fact it this, they both work when done at by parents .And you haven't proven shit other then Planned parenthood and there affiliate clinics say that . So try harder swamp donkey.
First, they were posted to blogs as reported by the CDC. STD's are up. Googl STD among teens and you will get all you need in big letters so you get it. From 1996 to now STD's are up. Then do it state by state and you will see it is up as well, especially among African Americans who also lead in abortions. The long and short is this, Abstinence training in school- Dont work, Sexual education in school- dont work. What is a fact it this, they both work when done at by parents .And you haven't proven shit other then Planned parenthood and there affiliate clinics say that . So try harder swamp donkey.
More fantastic unsupported guesses for me to tear apart, I see. So you continue to claim things are increasing since 1996 despite the CDC report from 2009 that you yourself posted stated the exact opposite. In the next post, you went on to copy and paste old information from the CDC from previous reports, while making no points.
So in summary: you are drawing completely unrelated conclusions regarding the ineffectiveness of sex ed in public schools because you cherry picked outdated articles from the CDC instead of using the most recent information available. You then used this irrelevant data to claim that an unrelated law is the reason that STDs are increasing, despite the data not showing it.
Perhaps a visual will help your understanding:
STD statistics for the USA
This is a graph of the CDC numbers over time. As you will see, it corresponds with the latest conclusions produced by the CDC regarding those three STDs, as mentioned in my previous post: gonorrhea is the lowest it has ever been recorded, chlamydia numbers are increasing due to better screening methods although the disease itself is not, and syphilis has not really changed. Note the time course of that graph. Note how the laws that defend adolescent privacy were enacted in early 2000 and there is ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGE IN THE TRENDS AT THAT TIME.
If you were right, and these laws increase STDs, we would see massive spikes across the board. Not a single trend would continue in the same direction. Everything would take a sharp turn upward. But we don't see that at all. As I've said before, increased medical access has been proven to not increase risky behavior. All it does is increase treatment of affected individuals.
So once again: you're wrong. The CDC says you're wrong. The American Medical Association, the largest representation of doctors in the country, says you're wrong. The American Academy of Pediatrics says you're wrong. Yet somehow, in your ignorance and insignificant unsupported worldview, you think you are in a better position to determine policy than the country's brightest scientists and most experienced doctors.
MEANWHILE, it has been proven across every country and every study in this country that sex education is an effective method of decreasing unwanted pregnancy and STD transmissions. The data also shows that students who learn sex ed are not more likely to increase risky behaviors. This is not opinion. This is fact based on scientific analysis of reliable verifiable data. I base my ideas on such facts. You debase your ideas on opinions you thought up that are completely unsupported.