TITLE

Talking About Sex

AUTHOR(S)

Curran, Carla; Witt, Virginia

PUB. DATE

October 2002

SOURCE

State Legislatures;Oct/Nov2002, Vol. 28 Issue 9, p24

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the issues that should be addressed in sex education courses offered by several schools in the U.S. Rates of teenage pregnancy in the U.S. as of October 2002; Provisions of several sex education laws that have been enacted by state legislatures in the U.S.; Views of parents on the core concepts that sex education should cover; Details of the sex education programs that have been created by Michael Carerra of the Children's Aid Society of New York.

ACCESSION #

7674257

Tags: SEX education;  SCHOOLS -- United States;  TEENAGE pregnancy

 

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