COMPREHENSIVE Sex Education Works
Once again there has been a spat of news coverage in the mainstream media regarding birth control & sex education in the schools. It's been triggered by a recent news story about a Portland, Maine school that has decided to make available birth control to its students (11-13 years of age) in response to a number of incidents of teen pregnancy in their school district. The King Middle School is the first middle school in Maine to offer birth control through its health center. The services offered by the school health center are confidential, however parents must give permission for the students to have access to the health center services. A recent AP poll has shown that most parents (67%) support giving birth control to children to prevent teen pregnancy and the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The truth is that since the inception of comprehensive sex education programs, the number of teen pregnancies have declined. However, in the past decade ...