TITLE

Family Life Education Act would fund comprehensive sexuality education

PUB. DATE

November 2004

SOURCE

Contemporary Sexuality;Nov2004, Vol. 38 Issue 11, p5

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports that California Representative Barbara Lee is one of the sponsors of the Family Life Education Act (FLEA), which would reform an abstinence-until-marriage provision in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act to allow states to receive funding for both abstinence and comprehensive sexuality education, including contraception and HIV/AIDS education. Forty-nine states, except California, have accepted the funding, in many cases because of misinformation about what the abstinence-only-until-marriage programs require. California, in defense of comprehensive sex education, has rejected the funding. In another show of support for FLEA, the bi-partisan Pro-Choice Caucus, of which Lee is a member, incorporated the bill's provisions into the Putting Prevention First Act, a comprehensive prevention package that will help prevent unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases and will significantly reduce the number of abortions.

ACCESSION #

16170976

Tags: FAMILY life education;  EDUCATION & state;  LEE, Barbara, 1946-;  SEX education;  AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention;  SEXUAL abstinence;  PUBLIC welfare

 

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