Support is overwhelming for sex ed that teaches young people about contraception, healthy relationships, and STIs, in combination with abstinence, according to public opinion polling from SIECUS. Yet ...

Dworkin is with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute ... the Society's position paper on abstinence-only education. JS was the primary author ...

Our Department of Education, complying with legislative edicts, is yielding to the Victorian prudery of pressure groups like ...

Is it better for young people to get factual information in the classroom, or have attitudes shaped by TV situation comedies ...

A new Florida law is pushing some schools to replace their sex education curriculums with programs that prioritize abstinence ...

In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid settlements paid by ...

Education Minister Luis Fernando Ramirez downplayed the controversy, stressing there was still time to improve the curriculum before enforcing it. “There’s no expenditure of state funds,” he ...

A new middle school sex education curriculum in Orange County, Florida, obtained by Popular Information, eliminates previous lessons on the reproductive system, contraception, and consent. What ...

As one of Alabama’s comprehensive sex education providers, ACASH has found itself challenged recently as well. Rep. Susan ...

Only 30 states and the District of Columbia require public schools to teach sex education. Seventeen teach abstinence-only education, and more than half require schools to emphasize abstinence.

It was 2007 and at 17, I’d already been sexually active for two years and with multiple partners. I had rarely used a condom.

Members of Hey Janey and Co., a student-run advocacy group focused on harm prevention, reproductive healthcare and safe sex ...