Abstinence Programs Have Zero Effect

A recent study from the non-partisan Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. concludes that "abstinence only" sex-education classes, which have been a darling of the current administration, have absolutely NO effect on young people. The multi-year study found:

...that youth in the four evaluated programs were no more likely than youth not in the programs to have abstained from sex in the four to six years after they began participating in the study. Youth in both groups who reported having had sex also had similar numbers of sexual partners and had initiated sex at the same average age.

Read more from the report here.