TITLE

Abstinence Education Growing in Popularity

AUTHOR(S)

Coles, Adrienne D.

PUB. DATE

October 2000

SOURCE

Education Week;10/04/2000, Vol. 20 Issue 5, p5

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Highlights studies which found a vast majority of public school students in the United States being taught some form of sex education, but that a growing number of schools are focusing on sexual abstinence rather than contraception. Topics being discussed in sex education classes; Factors driving pressure to teach abstinence as the central component of sex education; Increased attention paid to sex education.

ACCESSION #

3654656

Tags: SEX education;  PUBLIC schools -- Curricula;  SEXUAL abstinence -- Study & teaching;  CONTRACEPTION -- Study & teaching

 

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