Abstinence Education

Some of you may have heard about this.  A report on Abstinence Education was paid for with tax payer dollars.  The Obama administration refused to release the findings.  It has taken some effort for it to be released and took multiple request through the freedom of information act to get it done.  It is in my opinion a blatant effort to stand in the way of family values.  Parental access to meaningful public programs that support Christian and family values on teenagers having sex and sex before marriage.  The left is now saying that the report has no significant information in it and it shouldn't be a big deal that it was not released.  I would venture to say a read of it yourself will prove otherwise.  Here is a article.

Feds embargo pro-abstinence findings

The full results of a national study that favors abstinence education is being withheld from researchers and the public.

The taxpayer-supported survey from 2008 found that around 70 percent of parents and their teenagers believed that teens should wait until marriage to have sex. Despite release of the study's summary and its highlight at two major public health conferences last year, the Department of Health and Human Services is withholding the full results according to Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Foundation.

"When a researcher [Dr. Lisa Rue] asked the HHS for the full results, she [was told it] is not public information and it has not been released to the public and so you don't have access to it," relates Huber. "[I find that] a little incredulous since it was shared publicly at two different venues."

Huber questions the motivation of the Obama administration, noting that "as of this past fiscal year, President Obama specifically put in his budget a desire to end all funding for abstinence education."

She hopes a change will be made soon. "We think that an administration that wants things to be open and clear should certainly do something different than the decision that is currently being exercised," Huber remarks.

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For a link to a PDF file of the actual report click here.  If you have a digital reader such as a Kindle you can download the PDF to that and read it on the go. I am currently wading through it now it is 195 pages long.  I think it is worth the read I will post some additional information on it at a later date.  It took a significant amount of effort to get this released.  I think Christians every where should take the time to read it. 

Why do you think the Obama administration would benefit from with holding this report?