The running dispute between abstinence education and comprehensive sex education flares up at least once a year around budget request time. Comprehensive sex education programs claim to teach ...

Abstinence-only sex education may be more effective than safe sex education at delaying teenage sexual activity after all, according to a recent University of Pennsylvania study, but Boston University ...

New research is challenging the effectiveness of abstinence-only education. Eric White of Best Men, a program that advocates abstinence for young men is joined by sex educator Deborah Roffman to share ...

WASHINGTON – President Obama allocated zero dollars toward abstinence-only education in his 2011 federal budget. He did the same in his last budget. But a landmark study published in the February ...

President Bush’s proposal to almost double the amount of money the federal government spends on abstinence education to $273 million in fiscal 2005 has raised the stakes in the battle over what to ...

“Five Years of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Education: Assessing the Impact,” and “Trends in Sexual Risk Behaviors among High School Students—United States, 1991 to 1997 and 1999 to 2003,” are both ...

(Reuters Health) - U.S. government spending on abstinence-only education doesn't appear to reduce teen pregnancies and in some areas is having the opposite effect, a recent study suggests. Across the ...

Flash back to 1991. The soundtrack? "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour, a one-hit-wonder dance-pop act. Over a throbbing beat a deep manly voice asks, "Have you noticed that people are still ...

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