What should public schools teach our children about sex? It can be a complex question, especially when dealing with morals, social norms, pop culture, hormones and health. When students sit down for their sex education, should teachers embrace an abstinence-only policy?
Golden Gate [X]Press - 23 Hours Ago
The book elaborates on how both abstinence only education and comprehensive education miss the opportunity to give an open dialogue to students by reducing ...
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OneNewsNow - November 17, 2008
An abstinence education advocate is hopeful that the new leadership in Washington will continue to fund abstinence education in the near future. ...
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Malta Independent Online - November 16, 2008
We should all be in favour of the principle of abstinence education of course, but not from a platform that also spreads anti-contraception propaganda. ...
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Washington Post - November 14, 2008
Dale said the county's family life education curriculum emphasizes premarital sexual abstinence. In addition, he said, today's young people are "swinging ...
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Medical News Today (press release) - November 13, 2008
The non-faith-based program modified a national abstinence education curriculum to be more appropriate and culturally sensitive for local students, ...
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AlterNet - November 12, 2008
Even the abstinence-only-until-marriage industry's lobbying arm, the National Abstinence Education Association, pondered in their day-after-the-election ...
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Medical News Today (press release) - November 12, 2008
... stop with the global gag rule," but will also impact abstinence-only sex education policies and global AIDS funding (Douglas, RH Reality Check, 11/10). ...
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OneNewsNow - November 12, 2008
A leading abstinence education proponent says it would be very unfortunate if the incoming Obama administration chose to eliminate a "science-based, ...
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RH Reality Check - November 11, 2008
Religious Americans overwhelmingly favor responsible sex education that is complete, age appropriate and includes accurate information about abstinence and ...
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Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - November 11, 2008
In fact we're required by law, if we talk to someone about positive pregnancy tests, we talk about all of their options, abstinence on. ...
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Bulletin - November 11, 2008
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - Nov 11, 2008
... but when the money comes with unreasonable restrictions, as with abstinence-only sex education programs, some find the backbone to say "no thanks. ...
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Lifesite - November 10, 2008
... while supporters of Obama's policies call such training "naive and dangerous," the executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association ...
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Education Week News - November 10, 2008
Hawaii's Department of Health has received five-year federal abstinence education grants for nine years and is applying for a new one. ...
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Bloomberg - November 10, 2008
Both Republicans and Democrats have indicated support for the focus on abstinence and education that goes along with PEPFAR, which has also been shown to ...
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Bulletin - November 10, 2008
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - 22 hours ago
By Helen Altonn Healthy choices are the focus of sexual abstinence education programs conducted by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Honolulu and Catholic Charities ...
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Bloomberg - November 09, 2008
Both Republicans and Democrats have indicated support for the focus on abstinence and education that goes along with PEPFAR, which has also been shown to ...
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The Daily Advertiser - November 07, 2008
"We have a highly sexualized culture that glamorizes sex," Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association said. ...
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San Francisco Chronicle - November 06, 2008
... abstinence education, et al -- not only failed, but failed spectacularly. No wonder they're clinging to this old, failed idea of marriage so violently. ...
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Washington Times - November 06, 2008
Mr. Obama is not a supporter of the DC Scholarship Program, which offers vouchers to low-income families, and he has been vague about abstinence education ...
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RH Reality Check - November 05, 2008
Even the abstinence-only-until-marriage industry's lobbying arm, the National Abstinence Education Association, pondered in their day-after-the-election ...
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