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"On the Effects of Sex Education"

Daniel David Adame. "On the Effects of Sex Education: A Response to Those Who Would Say It Promotes Teenage Pregnancy."

Health Education, 16(5), (1984, October-November) pp. 8-10.

The basic conclusion of "On the Effects of Sex Education: A Response to Those Who Would Say It Promotes Teenage Pregnancy" is that current models of sex education in American schools are being criticized unfairly because different criteria of evaluation are applied indiscriminately.

The basic approach to knowledge employed by author Daniel D. Adame is that of reactive comparison. The author utilizes the points of controversy employed by critics of sex education in public schools. In generalized terms, Adame compares those critics' expectations with other branches of education to illustrate his point: that it is unfair to judge sex education programs on a higher standard than on other education programs.

Adame uses this approach to knowledge, it is fairly obvious, because the type of criticism he is addressing is characterized not so much by reasoned analysis as by a moralistic generality that sex education promotes teen pregnancy. To counter such a critique, the author probably felt, it would be necessary to take the critics' own standards and apply them to other programs - thus illustrating the unfairness of the critics' approach to the issue of sex education in public schools.

The article was not a research study, beyond employing general learning curves, behavior and pedagogic theory.

In "On the Effects of Sex Education: A Response to Those Who Would Say It Promotes Teenage Pregnancy," author Daniel D. Adame chooses a forum of expression, the journal Health Education, where he is unlikely to encounter much adverse opinion concerning his point-of-view. That is not necessarily a criticism of the article, but it identifies why one of the major weaknesses of the article exists: that is, that Adame essentially defends sex ed...

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