Anti-lifers,
including Obama, are not interested in
the truth. They have an agenda and will
pursue it relentlessly, with no qualms
about lying and suppressing the truth.
If they are murdering the unborn and offering
them to Baal, why will they care about
the truth? They worship at the altar of
Satan who is the father of lies. If they
told the truth, if they sought the truth
sincerely, if they promoted the truth,
their whole anti-life and anti-family
agenda would collapse.
This is the fight we are involved in.
We face murderers and liars. We face
Satan and his hordes.
Obama
Administration Stonewalls Full Release
of Major Abstinence Study
By
Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON,
D.C., August 19, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– The U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
is withholding the full results of a
government study that makes a strong
case for promoting abstinence before
marriage over sexual education promoting
“safe sex.” While
the executive summary and final results
are available, behavioral scientists
are not being allowed a look at all
the data behind the study’s major
findings.
The
HHS’s Administration for Children
and Families (ACF) funded a national
survey of 1,000 adolescents between
the ages of 12 and 18 and their “most
knowledgeable parent.” The objective
of the study was to examine the relationship
between parent attitudes and levels
of communication with adolescents and
their behavior, as well as the effect
of peer attitudes.
The
executive summary revealed that 70 percent
of parents agreed with the statement:
"It is against your values for
your adolescents to have sexual intercourse
before marriage.” Another 70 percent
of parents agreed with the statement:
"Having sexual intercourse is something
only married people should do."
The
response of adolescents showed slightly
more permissive attitudes, although
the majority still agreed with the elder
generation. Just over 60 percent agreed
that “Having sexual intercourse
is something only married people should
do," while just under 60 percent
agreed that “It is against your
values for your adolescents to have
sexual intercourse before marriage.”
The
key findings also showed that “attitudes”
of parents and peers toward sexual intercourse
were key in an adolescent’s choice
to abstain from or engage in sexual
intercourse. It found that “conservative
parent attitudes were strongly associated
with conservative adolescent attitudes.”
Notably,
the study also found that increased
levels of communication about sex actually
had no impact or a negative impact on
youth’s sexual attitudes. Specifically,
it found that higher levels of parent
to adolescent communication about sex
“were not associated with any
differences in adolescent attitudes.”
Also, when communication about sex is
greater among adolescent peers, the
study found that these were associated
with “less conservative adolescent
attitudes.”
The
study concluded that, while adolescents
in abstinence classes increased parent-adolescent
communication, these had “no influence
on adolescent attitudes” –
again indicating that parental attitudes
were far more influential.
"Adjusting
for all other factors in the model,
parent and peer factors are more consistently
associated with differences in adolescent
attitudes about sex and abstinence than
are measures of adolescent exposure
to sex and abstinence topics in a class
or program,” stated the American
Public Health Association in its findings.
“Additionally, parent attitudes
are more important in influencing adolescent
views than the level of parent communication
with their adolescent."
But the problem for behavioral researchers
is that the Administration is not releasing
the full study, which could offer insight
into how to encourage teen abstinence
in order to reduce teen pregnancy, out
of wedlock births, and the epidemic
of venereal disease.
Researcher
Lisa Rue, Ph.D., a specialist in adolescent
behavior, wrote an editorial in the
Times Call revealing that the HHS had
blocked her repeated requests for the
full detailed study, including a Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) request. According
to Rue, the HHS said they would not
release the full study because they
were “pre-decisional and deliberative"
– a claim Rue said she found hard
to believe, since the study has been
publically mentioned at least twice.
"We
have to know cultural norms and values
before we ever do any kind of research,
or develop initiatives," Rue said.
"If you ignore that, you're ignoring
a premise, a key premise in evaluation
science and research."
Rue
suspected the
full details were being withheld because
they would undermine the Obama administration’s
priorities on sex education, which do
not include sexual abstinence or address
the issue of fatherlessness in children’s
lives.
Rue
concluded, “At this point in time,
we must ask ourselves: Is
this valuable process being suppressed
by those who wish to repress American
values in an effort to exert control
over sex education offered in the United
States?"
The
National Abstinence Education Association
(NAEA)
reports that individuals interested
in requesting the study can file their
own FOIA request for the full report.
Those who wish to fill out such a request
can visit the HHS website,
or consult the NAEA website
on how to file the form correctly.
Click
here
to read the available results of the
HHS study.
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die is
gain." (Phil 1:21)