Abstinence Only vs. Comprehensive Sex Education: What are the arguments? What is the evidence?
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Sex education: politicians, parents, teachers and teens.
ed the relative merits of sexuality education that promotes abstinence as the only acceptable form of behavior outside of marriage and more comprehensive approaches that discuss contraception as well. The results of several new studies show that these debates may have had a considerable impact on what is being taught in the classroom; moreover, they strongly indicate that politicians—in their d...
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