Abstinence only sex education courses lie to youngsters with scary ...
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Some federally funded abstinence sex education courses tell youngsters that 50% of all American teenage gay men are HIV positive, touching someone&#39;s genitals can make you pregnant and abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, says the Washington Post.
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Young people face a "sexual health crisis" fuelled by alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour, a report warns.
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Teenagers who have had formal sex education are far more likely to put off having sex, contradicting earlier studies on the effectiveness of such programs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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The vast majority of curricula used by federally funded schools and organizations to teach abstinence contain false, misleading or distorted information about reproductive health
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Liberal critics periodically complain that federally funded "abstinence only" sex-education materials are full of false or misleading statements about the effectiveness of condoms and other issues.  Now the Bush administration is firing back, charging that programs that endorse condom use also are...
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Opponents of abstinence education cite a study that found no sign that it delayed a teenagerâs sexual debut.
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Abstinence-only sex education programs, a major plank in President Bush's education plan, have had no impact on teenagers' behavior in his home state of Texas, according to a new study.
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Young people should be informed about sexual health services and have access to them, ministers say.
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Millions of American schoolchildren are offered religiously-inspired &quot;sex education&quot; courses that are riddled with falsehoods, a congressional staff report has found.
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There are fears that teenagers in Wales are facing an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases.
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LET ME SEE if I have this right. At one end of the sexual life cycle, we have pubescent teenagers so driven by biology that they can barely concentrate on physics.
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NEW YORK  - A sizable minority of sex education teachers does not cover all of the basics, and many lack training to teach sex ed at all, a survey of teachers in one state suggests.
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A new report from Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) and the minority staff of the House Committee on Government Reform, The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs
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A report released Wednesday by Democratic representative Henry Waxman of California says that federally funded abstinence-only sex education programs present &quot;false and misleading&quot; information about HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, condom
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Viewpoint: The outcry over Portland, Maine's decision to provide the pill to young girls shows that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids
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Chile began supplying morning-after pills to girls as young as 14 this week under a program that has created an uproar in the politically leftist but socially conservative country, which still outlaws all abortions and only legalized divorce two years ago.
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NEW DELHI -- Two weeks ago, a TV news channel here broadcast an expos? alleging that a math teacher at a local school had forced young girls into prostitution. The public reaction was swift and harsh: Within an hour, hundreds of enraged parents had stormed the school and a crowd had found the...