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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Adolescents In Ghana: Facts In Brief
Contributing Organization(s): Guttmacher Institute
Publication date: 2006-07-01
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This fact sheet on adolescents in Uganda covers: - Home and Life
- Worries
- School
- Sex
- First Sex
- Contraception
- HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Information and Services
- Misperceptions
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Adolescents in Malawi: Facts In Brief
Contributing Organization(s): Guttmacher Institute
Publication date: 2006-07-01
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This fact sheet on adolescents in Malawi covers: - Home and Life
- Worries
- School
- Sex
- First Sex
- Contraception
- HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Information and Services
- Misperceptions
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Adolescents in Uganda: Facts In Brief
Contributing Organization(s): Guttmacher Institute
Publication date: 2006-07-01
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This fact sheet on adolescents in Uganda covers: - Home and Life
- Worries
- School
- Sex
- First Sex
- Contraception
- HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Information and Services
- Misperceptions
Complete listing and access info » |
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Advice from the Field: Youth Employment Programs and Unintended Pregnancy
Contributing Organization(s): Center for Law and Social Policy
Publication date: 2003-08-27
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This report further explores the connection between the fields of pregnancy prevention and youth employment. It provides "advice from the field" from five youth employment providers about their efforts to combat unintended pregnancy and to provide family planning services. In addition, it includes interviews with two experts in the youth employment and teen pregnancy prevention fields, who provide advice and essential information for practitioners. This report is intended to provide "how-to's" for staff in the youth employment field who wish to more innovatively integrate reproductive health education and unintended pregnancy prevention services into their programs. Complete listing and access info » |
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Advocacy Resource Guide: Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Young Men
Contributing Organization(s): Healthy Teen Network
Publication date: 2008-10-01
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Healthy Teen Network recognizes that engaging young men to be active partners in reducing pregnancies and STIs requires innovative thinking and the building of linkages within a variety of communities, programs, and agencies. We cannot wait for young males to seek services and support, but rather must reach out to them in unlikely settings and venues (e.g., employment agencies, social clubs, sports settings, barber shops), and partner with a diverse mix of agencies, groups, and individuals. 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.
