As the scene from “Mean Girls” suggests, abstinence-based sex education has dominated health classes across the U.S. for decades and remains popular today. Despite this, myriad studies debunk the ...

Friday, June 16, 2023 -- There is a comprehensive, consensus program to address the needs of our public schools, the students, faculty and very necessary support services. It is bipartisan with deeply ...

Two years ago, Texas students received updated health curriculum, including instruction on human sexuality, across all grade levels. It was the first time since the 1990s the Texas State Board of ...

Boston Ashby is chief executive officer of Girls Inc. of the Pacific Northwest and a former public health official. She lives in Portland. The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of the constitutional ...

Comprehensive sex education, not generally taught in Tennessee, has far-reaching benefits beyond sexual health, including promoting adolescent mental health. Sex education that is comprehensive ...

This summer, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) released a report outlining a "path that ends AIDS." The report reflected on the past, remembering that two decades ago there ...

Brittany McBride is director of training and Nora Gelperin leads the sex education and training team at Advocates for Youth. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee officially signed into law a catastrophic bill that ...

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Many states with abortion restrictions emphasize abstinence as the main or only way to avoid getting pregnant. “Very few young people in the U.S. get outstanding sex education,” said Leslie Kantor, a ...

Carol Spaulding-Kruse is a Professor of English at Drake University where she has taught since 1996. Welcome back to alums returning this week for the Drake Relays, and greetings to the wider Drake ...

The gym teacher stands in front of a chalkboard with the word “ABSTINENCE” written in all caps and sternly tells the room of teenagers, “Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die.” The ...