It's been a central plank of George Bush's social policy: to stop teenagers having sex. More than $1bn of federal money has been spent on promoting abstinence since 1998 - posters printed, television adverts broadcast and entire education programmes 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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Meanwhile:
True Love Waits International will expand its abstinence-until-marriage message in six African countries, utilizing $950,000 in donor gifts...
