Not scientific at all but my view is they're not taking our animal nature into account, it's possible that these simulations make them want to have a baby, "bab

Not scientific at all but my view is they're not taking our animal nature into account, it's possible that these simulations make them want to have a baby, "baby fever" and all that. Or maybe the simulations are easier than raising a baby and so they think "this is no big deal" and start acting irresponsibly. Do we know why the programs are in these particular schools and not in the control group? It's possible that the schools were initially selected for the programs because they had a higher risk rate already, it's quite possible it is lower than it was before the programs which would mean that they are in fact effective. The methodology of this study isn't airtight. It's important to note, the study considers abortions to be indicative of failure of the programs and counts abortions before the age of 20 as pregnancies, whereas they could (to put it lightly) be indicative of a desire not to have kids, demonstrating the efficacy of the programs. Not entirely accurate, because you'd expect the same in the schools without the programs, but I'd be interested in seeing the numbers without abortions included in them.