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"The only positive, statistically small, was that those taking the pledge had 0.1 fewer sex partners over the five year study than did those who did not take such a pledge." This statistic shows the ineffectiveness of abstinence only education. A type of education that continues to be taught in public schools across the country. I find it interesting that such a ineffective method of teaching sex education is still sponsored by the government, I mean, we would throw a fit if the government allowed some schools to teach less efficient or accurate way of doing arithmetic. If this method caused large portions of students to do very poorly on the SAT and therefore the education they received had harmful consequences on the rest of their lives. The reality is no different except certain people believe that this is what they believe is morally correct and therefore push their beliefs onto other peoples children. One of the poster children of abstenence only education is Sarah Palin and it is very ironic that her daughter got a bun in the oven during her vice-presidental run. I don't think it will be long until the people or the government take the initiative to lower funding for abstinence only education.