Wagner, Deborah Hardin.
Our Children Need a Real...Sex Education. / Deborah Hardin Wagner. - St. Petersburg Times, 2002. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Article 21. Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Originally Published: Our Children Need a Real...Sex Education, June 2, 2002; pp. 1D+.
"Critics often talk about abstinence education as if it were a prepackaged monolith, but abstinence programs...come in many varieties. In Hillsborough [FL], the program is a creative hybrid that combines four one-hour abstinence-only classroom lessons with individual or group counseling for students who are sexually active or at high risk of becoming so. Parents are notified and can opt their children out. Few do, for good reason." (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES) This article reviews an experimental sex education program that stresses social responsibility being offered in 11 of Hillsborough County, Florida's middle schools--located in neighborhoods with the highest crime, poverty and teen-pregnancy rates.
1522-3213;
Education--Curricula.
Responsibility.
Sex education.
Sexual abstinence.
Students--Sexual behavior.
Teenage mothers.
Teenage pregnancy.
Teenagers--Sexual behavior.
Florida.
AC1.S5
050
Our Children Need a Real...Sex Education. / Deborah Hardin Wagner. - St. Petersburg Times, 2002. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Article 21. Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003. Originally Published: Our Children Need a Real...Sex Education, June 2, 2002; pp. 1D+.
"Critics often talk about abstinence education as if it were a prepackaged monolith, but abstinence programs...come in many varieties. In Hillsborough [FL], the program is a creative hybrid that combines four one-hour abstinence-only classroom lessons with individual or group counseling for students who are sexually active or at high risk of becoming so. Parents are notified and can opt their children out. Few do, for good reason." (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES) This article reviews an experimental sex education program that stresses social responsibility being offered in 11 of Hillsborough County, Florida's middle schools--located in neighborhoods with the highest crime, poverty and teen-pregnancy rates.
1522-3213;
Education--Curricula.
Responsibility.
Sex education.
Sexual abstinence.
Students--Sexual behavior.
Teenage mothers.
Teenage pregnancy.
Teenagers--Sexual behavior.
Florida.
AC1.S5
050