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"The idea of maintaining sexual freedom rather than preventing disease remains the driving force and primary focus of national sex education, and the STD epidemic continues to worsen as long as this remains the focus."
Epidemic: How Teen Sex Is Killing Our Kids
 
For Title V Funding (5/02) PDF Print E-mail

For Title V funding are: "Abstinence Education" - an educational or motivational program which –
"(A) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;
"(B) teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children;
"(C) teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;

"(D) teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;
"(E) teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;
"(F) teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents, and society;
"(G) teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances; and
"(H) teaches the importance of attaining self- sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity." [AbstinenceE-mail Update Special Edition 24May 02]

 
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