The failure of abstinence-only education: minors have a right to honest talk about sex.(Sexuality and the Law)

From: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The federal government spends over $170 million annually to subsidize states and community organizations that provide abstinence-only sex education (1) to America's youth. (2) This type of sex education (3) is limited to teaching that a monogamous, marital, heterosexual relationship is the "expected standard of human activity" (4) and that sex outside such a relationship will be physically and psychologically harmful. (5) Abstinence-only education also advocates only one method to prevent disease and pregnancy, abstinence, and it offers no information concerning contraception and ...

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