tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post5133252143932559003..comments2024-03-28T23:49:28.343+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: "Sex Education"David Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-31416411788404527982007-02-12T16:29:00.000+00:002007-02-12T16:29:00.000+00:00I know that the likes of the Social Exclusion Unit...I know that the likes of the Social Exclusion Unit will tell you that the rate is coming down, but that is because (as, frankly, everyone knows) underage abortions and miscarriages are routinely recorded as other things, if the latter are recorded at all.<BR/><BR/>In the same way, for example, everyone knows that GCSE pass rates are only a percentage of those entered for the exam, not of those in the class. Among so many other con tricks in the same vein (crime, unemployment, immigration, &c, &c, &c, &c, &c...).<BR/><BR/>You might be about to come back with the much lower rate of teenage pregnancies in the Netherlands. But that has nothing to do with 1990s innovations such as lowering the age of consent to 12 (yes, 12!) and handing out condoms in schools.<BR/><BR/>Rather, it was, and is, because of the strong family structures sustained by the pervading influence of Calvinism in the north and Catholicism in the south, possibly now accompanied by, as a proportion of the population, the very high number of Muslims. At least as regards cultures infused with Catholicism or classical Protestantism, something vety similar can be said about Germany, for example.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.com