Abstinence programs have no effect ... really? "In 1996, Congress authorized $50 million annually for five years to states for abstinence education programs ... authorized under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. ... [Two key findings of the mandated evaluation were]: Youth in the program group [which was offered abstinence-only education] were no more likely than those in the control group to have abstained from sex, and, among those who reported having had sex, they had similar numbers of sexual partners. Contrary to concerns raised by critics of abstinence education, youth in the program group were no more likely to have unprotected sex than youth in the control group."[1]- Mathematica Policy Research(Read Full Post)