Great article at The New Yorker discussing the differences in attitude toward sex, sex education and teen pregnancy between the "Reds" and the "Blues".
Long, but worth the read.
a few excerpts:
"Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news."
and
"...social conservatives in “red states” generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teen-ager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion."
Also, despite all the emphasis on "abstinence" in "faith based" sex education, turns out that:
"evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews".
"Another key difference in behavior, Regnerus reports, is that evangelical Protestant teen-agers are significantly less likely than other groups to use contraception. This could be because evangelicals are also among the most likely to believe that using contraception will send the message that they are looking for sex"
"adolescents who say that their families understand them, pay attention to their concerns, and have fun with them are more likely to delay intercourse, regardless of religiosity"...
Read it all here: "New Yorker: Red Sex, Blue Sex"
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