Sex Education: Needs, Programs and Policies

A slide presentation from The Guttmacher Institute examines the latest research and analysis on sexuality education in the United States.

"Although teenage pregnancy rates are declining in the United States, American teenagers have much higher rates of pregnancy, birth, abortion, and STDs compared with teenagers in most other developed countries." Based on this research, the presentation addresses why adolescents in the United States fare worse than their peers in other countries, the role of sex education in helping teenagers make healthy and responsible decisions about sex, the current status of sexuality education in the United States, and the policy debate over education programmes that exclusively promote abstinence and those that provide more comprehensive messages.

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