Trapper's Swamp

Some schools in Texas have admitted that abstinence-only sex education doesn't work, as evidenced by Texas' third highest teen brith rate in the US, and more damningly, the highest rate of repeat teen briths.

More government money has been spent on the cause of sexual abstinence in Texas than any other state, but it still has the third-highest teen birth rate in the country and the highest percentage of teen mothers giving birth more than once.

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It may be a sensationalistic title, but there seems to be a correlation between teen birth rates and the adherence to religious beliefs in the US.

However, the results don't say anything about cause and effect, though study researcher Joseph Strayhorn of Drexel University College of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh offers a speculation of the most probable explanation: "We conjecture that religious communities in the U.S. are more successful in discouraging the use of contraception among their teenagers than they are in discouraging sexual intercourse itself."

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