MLC spouse projecting their negativity onto the BS

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Are you familiar with programs like DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) and Absitence Only?

For the longest time people assumed this programs helped, and they made everybody feel good as if there were doing something about drug use among kids and teen pregnancy.

Problem: in studies where the rates of drug use and teen pregnancy were compared to those of among groups of kids not exposed to these programs, the rates of drug use and teen pregnancy were about more-or-less equal.

19% of the girls who pledged to remain absinent through high school reported having unprotected sex within the first year.

My point?

It's not a maturity thing. Some kids don't become addicted to drugs, and their reaction to programs like DARE is "Duh?". They anticipate their actions have consequences and act accordingly. The kids you are trying to reach with these programs do not anticipate consequences or perform risk assesments, they are not thinking that far ahead.

It's a perspective issue, not a maturity issue. I could go on to cite similiar studies among adults, but you get the point, right?

She's not being "immature". She isn't anticipating future consequences based on the way you portray things.