5 April 2007

MPS Fail to address FPA Disaster

The results of the Youth Sexual Health report that was made public yesterday shows that years of tax-payer funded sex education classes organised by the Family Planning Association (FPA) and other like-minded groups have utterly failed to achieve any significant reduction in the high rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The Society is not surprised that New Zealand now has the second highest rate of teenage pregnancy among OECD countries, second only to the United States.

Society President Graham Fox says:

"The flawed philosophy that underlies FPA programmes needs to be exposed and replaced with one based on a sound conservative one and heads should role. The main emphasis should be on educating students about the virtues and benefits of chastity, marriage, fidelity and the benefits to society of sound, committed family life. Kids should be taught about the serious downside and repercussions of promiscuity and infidelity." Fox asks

"Why should tax-payers continue to fund the implementation of the failed FPA policies and allow FPA to use the same unconvincing and outworn excuses for their ongoing failures to make any impact. FPA continually puts parents in the firing line for these disastrous figures by claiming that they are ill-prepared and relucatant to talk to their children about sex and that more coordinated, better-funded sex education programmes by FPA will solve the problem. Parents get blamed while FPA shirks its responsibilities to deliver a meaninful moral or values-based message.

"With increasing numbers of pregnant single girls aged between 15 and 19 going on the DPB, why did the cross-party group of New Zealand MPs fail to bring this issue into the analysis? This option so many of them take, of economic dependency, is becoming more and more attractive it would seem as the Labour-led government rolls out its exconomic safety net.

Among other things the report by MPs recommends is that sexuality education be about contraceptives and condom use and sexual orientation should be given to young children ¡°before they become sexually active¡±; that there must be a nationwide approval or monitoring system¡± for external agencies providing sexuality education, and it supports the current framework which allows children to have abortions without parental consent or notification.

Fox says:

"This report is a damning indictment of the failures of the liberal agenda that underlies the FPA failed philosophy of: Hand out more condoms. Promote the homosexual and lesbian lifestyle as normal. Promote abortions as a reasonable and safe option for teenage girls to dispose of unwanted, unborn children."

"The report is woefully inadequate and its implementation will continue to deny young people knowledge of the full facts about human sexuality and the risks associated with the methodologies and ideologies being promoted by groups like the FPA.

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