Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Department of Health and Human Services has put forward new guidelines concerning ...

Despite statistics that demonstrate a high level of sexual activity among U.S. teens, Congress has allocated well over half a billion dollars since 1997 for educational programs that focus exclusively ...

Sexual abstinence programs have the potential to reduce the incidence of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among adolescents. Effectiveness measures are needed to help ...

A large body of research has found abstinence-only programs to be harmful to youth. Yet, despite warnings from the medical and public health communities, President Donald Trump once again wants to ...

This week’s Stat of the Week focuses on abstinence education in schools. The central message to students in abstinence education is to delay having sex until marriage. The controversy around ...

The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday began a campaign to urge officials in 18 states to reject abstinence-only sex-education programs. Many abstinence programs contain false or misleading ...

LOS ANGELES — As the Bush administration prepares to earmark millions of dollars for sex education that stresses abstinence, a debate has erupted among researchers and teachers over whether such ...

PIERRE - South Dakota public schools should be required to teach and define abstinence as a major component of sex education, a state lawmaker said Thursday. Rep. Roger Hunt, R-Brandon, told the House ...