Abstinence-only sex ed creating a trend, just not a positive one.

An article in the Washington Post today reveals a disturbing trend in teen pregnancies. They have risen for the first time since 1991. Along with the rise in teen births is a decline in condom usage and a rise in teenage STDs. When will these religious fucks realize that children are going to have sex no matter what you tell them. It's the truth, very few kids make it out of high school with their virginity. Abstinence-only was a failure from the start and anyone with a brain should have been able to see that it wasn't going to work. $1 billion spent on this shit and all we have are more mother who have to drop out of high school to raise a child on welfare and a child that will grow up on welfare and eventually continue the cycle one they are in high school. or they end up with a disease, some they will have the rest of their life or will end their life altogether.
A lot of this could be prevented if children were just taught that using condoms and birth control will decrease their risk of getting pregnant or dying.
According to the article teens in poverty stricken areas have higher rates than higher-income areas. that $1 billion could have been spend on safe-sex education and clinics in poor areas. but no, bush and the rest of the religious right have forced their twisted ideology into our school system, an ideology that ignores science and facts.
the facts are that children will have sex and they need to be educated to have it responsibly. They also need to be taught more than once. most programs are taught once during high school, some kids have had sex already by then. it needs to start in 7th grade and be repeated every year until they leave the public school system.
Abstinence-only does not work, and these programs should only be a small part of the sex curriculum, to maybe prevent some of them from having sex, for the majority they need to be educated to use protection and stop these trends.