I am sure we all have our own funny stories about sex ed class. But they really aren't so funny when we think about the fact that many of us got our (mis)information about the birds and bees from halted conversations with our parents, from gossiping with our friends, or from reading the bathroom wall.
Despite today's availability of information about sex and abstinence, things haven't gotten much better for adolescents. Ask a kid what "not having sex" means and you'll get a million different answers.
Legislation like the recently introduced REAL Act (The Responsible Education About Life Act) aims to end such misinformation by providing federal funding for comprehensive sex education in schools. (For the last 10 years billions of dollars have gone to abstinence-only-until-marriage programs while zero dollars went to what is known as comprehensive sex education.)
Informing policy initiatives, the actual design of sex education curricula, and activist interventions, is a body of knowledge produced by nonprofits and university based research centers that aims to answer critical questions about sex education.
What should kids know about sex and at what age?
What effect does knowing about sex have on adolescent sexual behavior?
Who is responsible for teaching kids about sex? parents, gym teachers, health teachers?
Are LGBTQ teens being left out of sex ed?
What can we do to prevent teen pregnancy?
What works best in HIV prevention education?
This is an issue that affects everyone, yet because the issue is often cast as being a moral issue it is tempting to avoid it altogether or to even imagine that the debate about sex education is a thing of the past. We encourage you to take a minute to explore some of the research collected here and get a different view on sex ed.
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Parental Engagement
Contributing Organization(s): Healthy Teen Network
Publication date: 2008-10-01
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The relationships between youth and parents is a central element in the successful development of healthy teens. In this guide, Healthy Teen Network recognizes the importance of adults in a young person's life and of the need to provide support and skills to these adults. Furthermore, this guide explores the importance of modeling positive adult behavior for youth. Complete listing and access info » |
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Plain Talk: Addressing Adolescent Sexuality Through A Community Initiative: A Final Evaluation Report Prepared for The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Contributing Organization(s): Public/Private Ventures
Publication date: 1999-09-01
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Plain Talk is a community change initiative that attempts to help sexually active youth protect themselves from pregnancy and disease. Plain Talk neighborhoods mobilize their residents and enlist agencies that would increase access to and support the effective use of contraception. The report discusses how residents were involved in developing and implementing community outreach efforts to change sexual attitudes and practices of adults, teenagers and service providers; the political and moral issues that arose in crafting the Plain Talk message; and the sites' efforts to improve reproductive health care services for adolescents. Complete listing and access info » |
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The Policy Climate for Early Adolescent Initiatives
Contributing Organization(s): Public/Private Ventures
Publication date: 2001-01-30
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In an era that is instinctively distrustful of public solutions to problems of individual and family behavior, this essay outlines a broad strategy for early adolescent initiatives that considers, then exploits, the limitations of the current policy climate. The author discusses such strategies as connecting local and state initiatives with federal opportunities; the importance of marketing initiatives clearly and with an emphasis on impact; and the nuances of collaboration. Implementing these strategies are the most effective means to transcend the chilly climate that exists for early adolescent initiatives. Complete listing and access info » |
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Postponing Sexual Involvement Evaluation Results 2007-08
Contributing Organization(s): Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Publication date: 2009-02-04
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Each year, an evaluation is conducted to determine the effectiveness of PSI and to provide school administrators with valuable information for decisions concerning the revision, expansion, and continuation of the program. Complete listing and access info » |
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Postponing Sexual Involvement Parent/Guardian Survey 2002
Contributing Organization(s): Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Publication date: 2002-10-08
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The Postponing Sexual Involvement Program is an educational curriculum designed to help teenagers learn to cope with and resist social and peer pressures to become sexually active at inappropriately early ages. Complete listing and access info » |
Available for your listening pleasure: a podcast on the issue of adolescents and reproductive health. Stacy Kessler, IssueLab's Collections Assistant, chatted with Laura Lindberg, Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute about the role of nonprofit research in the debate about comprehensive sex ed and abstinence training.
