So, now it seems that our executive branch, which boasts of “transparency” is hiding this report (paid for by YOU the voter) because it does not line up with their political agenda and “beliefs”.
It appears to me that the real “truth” muddles up the political “facts” being sent out to the schools and media, supposedly based on “scientific study”.
Here is an excerpt from the story:
The American Public Health Association’s APHA website reveals the only is results of the survey:
“Adjusting for all other factors in the model, parent and peer factors are more consistently associated with differences in adolescent attitudes about sex and abstinence than are measures of adolescent exposure to sex and abstinence topics in a class or program.
Additionally, parent attitudes are more important in influencing adolescent views than the level of parent communication with their adolescent.
”The executive summary revealed that:
- 70 percent of parents agreed with the statement: “It is against your values for your adolescents to have sexual intercourse before marriage.
- 70 percent of parents agreed with the statement: “Having sexual intercourse is something only married people should do.”
- Adolescents had similar responses for the two questions.
During an APHA conference, researcher Lisa Rue, Ph.D., who specializes in adolescent behavior, was intrigued by the study and requested the full report. She was summarily denied access.
Rue then resorted to submitting a Freedom of Information Act FOIA request, which was also denied because it was “pre-decisional and deliberative” – even though it was presented in public twice.
“We have to know cultural norms and values before we ever do any kind of research, or develop initiatives,” Rue said. “If you ignore that, you’re ignoring a premise, a key premise in evaluation science and research.”
via Obama Administration Blocks Release of Pivotal HHS Abstinence Study | CitizenLink.