Another “duh” moment of the day here:

A multi-million pound initiative to reduce teenage pregnancies more than doubled the number of girls conceiving.
The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.

But research funded by the Department of Health shows that young women who attended the programme, at a cost of £2,500 each, were ’significantly’ more likely to become pregnant than those on other youth programmes who were not given contraception and sex advice.

A total of 16 per cent of those on the Young People’s Development Programme conceived compared with just 6 per cent in other programmes.

Experts said the scheme failed because it introduced girls ‘at risk’ of becoming pregnant to promiscuous girls they might not otherwise have met.

Because of peer pressure, the more timid teenagers were more likely to have sex and become pregnant.

I’d say that those explanations are valid to an extent, but they don’t go to the heart of the problem, that being the mixed message you are sending kids: “We don’t want to see you get pregnant, but if you were going to get pregnant, here’s how you’d go about it, wink-wink, nudge-nudge.”

Safe sex is a myth. There’s no such thing. Oh, you can take the pill or slap a condom on but, sooner or later, it’s going to fail. And with the STDs we’ve got in this world today, it’s like playing Russian Roulette by handing a kid a condom and telling him to go at it. Seriously, would YOU have sex with an STD-infested partner — knowing full well that they are diseased — with only a thin sheet of rubber between you and God knows what? No sane person would, yet that’s exactly what these pointy-headed liberals want kids to do. Their excuse is that “well, they’re going to do it anyway”. Call me crazy, but you can use that excuse for any number of things. It doesn’t make it acceptable, and we sure as hell shouldn’t be letting the left get away with crap like this.

I’m not saying for a second that kids shouldn’t get some kind of sex-ed in their lives, but I don’t think the schools are the proper place for it. That’s the parent’s job, and it’s about damn time parents reclaimed that right and responsibility. Otherwise, we’re going to have more liberalism-inspired teen pregnancies and yet another generation of Americans stuck in poverty and misery. But hey, at least the abortion clinics will be doing ok, right?