W.'s $1 billion doesn't keep kids' pants on

By ED PILKINGTON
The Guardian

Filed 4.16.07

New York- It's been a central plank of George Bush's social policy: to stop teenagers from having sex. More than $1billion of federal money has been spent on promoting abstinence since 1998 - posters printed, television adverts broadcast and entire education programs devised for hundreds of thousands of girls and boys.

The trouble is, new research suggests that it hasn't worked. At all.

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Photo Captions & Credits: Research shows the US chastity programme, for which teenagers receive silver rings, has no influence on any future decision to have sex. Photograph: Jonathan Dyer/AP