sex lessons to cut rates of teenage pregnancy

[maruf]

You know, this might seem like it is far out, but I actually recently heard about this from someone affiliated with children and schools in the U.S.

This is exactly what I have been talking about in terms of a sick democratic confused system the poeple live under.


a'udhubillah.





observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1212734,00.html

Oral sex lessons to cut rates of teenage pregnancy

Mark Townsend
Sunday May 9, 2004
The Observer

Encouraging schoolchildren to experiment with oral sex could prove the most effective way of curbing teenage pregnancy rates, a government study has found.
Pupils under 16 who were taught to consider other forms of 'intimacy' such as oral sex were significantly less likely to engage in full intercourse, it was revealed.

Britain's teenage pregnancy rate is the highest in Europe. In 2002 there were 39,286 teen pregnancies recorded. The government has spent more than £60 million to tackle the problem but so far failed to halt the rise.

A sex education course developed by Exeter University trains teachers to talk to teenagers about 'stopping points' before full sex.

Now an unpublished government-backed report reveals that a trial of the course has been a success. Schoolchildren, particularly girls, who received such training developed a 'more mature' response to sex.

The study by the National Foundation for Educational Research found youngsters were 'less likely to be sexually active' than peers who received traditional forms of sex education, dispelling the fears of family campaigners who believe such methods actually arouse the sexual interest of teenagers.

Now the government will recommend the scheme, called A Pause, to schools throughout England and Wales following the success of the trial in 104 schools where sexual intercourse among 16-year-olds fell by up to 20 per cent, according to Dr John Tripp of the Department of Child Health at the University of Exeter, who helped to design the course.

Teachers who sign up to the course are primed to deal with queries from pupils on all kinds of sexual experience. Those behind the course stress the scheme does not suggest teenagers experiment with oral sex. Instead they say A Pause promotes the message that other forms of physical intimacy are safer than full intercourse.

'It teaches people assertiveness skills and that they should be only as intimate as they feel comfortable with,' said Tripp.

A Department for Education and Skills spokesman said the report's verdict would be made available to all schools. 'All teachers respect peer-reviewed material, and this will help influence their decision,' he said.

[Islamic Revival]

This is also a good example of the wrong solution for a problem.


Like, a few years ago, there was concern in the UK for the high rate of mobile phone thefts. To avoid this, there was a suggestion that people should leave their phones at home!


There was also some talk of opening a huge sector of casinos in London. Since it was expected that a certain percentage of people would become gambling addicts, so a certain proportion of the profits from these gambling dens should be put forward to set up institutions which would be able to administer therapy to these addicts.


In relation to revival of the Ummah, many people in the Muslim world feel that educating people by sending them to school/college will eliminate corruption. What they fail to realise is that it is not only the uneducated who are corrupt, actually, the educated 'elite' is the most corrupt in most, if not all, countries.


I heard an excellent example once used to illustrate how we should use the correct solution for any problem:

If I wanted to make some ice, and in order to do so, I filled a bowl of water and placed it in the fridge, I could wait for 20 years and it would still not form ice. However, if I picked the bowl up, and put it in the freezer, then within a matter of minutes, ice would form. That would be the correct solution.


wa salam.

[yuit]

Good response above. It seem to me that the West are always reacting to the problems. Their reaction after the action is normally always to late. They need to realise that the only way to solve these problems is by submission to allah.