Sex, Lies and Politics / Marjorie Heins.
by Heins, Marjorie; Sternberg, Steve; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 73Human Relations. Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc., 2001; Gannett News Service (Syndicate), 2001ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy | Federal aid to education | Needle exchange programs | Sex education | Sexual abstinence | Teenage pregnancy | Teenagers -- Sexual behaviorDDC classification: 050 Summary: "SEX, LIES AND POLITICS" -- The author argues that abstinence-only sex education is detrimental to American youth, noting Congress "has been doing everything in its power to prevent comprehensive sexuality education from reaching America's youngsters and to promote, in its place, an educationally limited, fear-based curriculum that preaches 'abstinence unless married.'...Here, sex ed remains a hot political issue rather than a sober matter of public health." (NATION)Summary: "ABSTINENCE ONLY" FUNDING MAY RISE -- "Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said Tuesday [June 5, 2001] that the administration may seek additional funds for controversial 'abstinence only' sex education programs." (USA TODAY) This article explains how despite opposition from many health experts, the government plans to increase funding for abstinence only sex eduvation programs.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Sex, Lies and Politics, May 7, 2001; pp. 20-23.
"SEX, LIES AND POLITICS" -- The author argues that abstinence-only sex education is detrimental to American youth, noting Congress "has been doing everything in its power to prevent comprehensive sexuality education from reaching America's youngsters and to promote, in its place, an educationally limited, fear-based curriculum that preaches 'abstinence unless married.'...Here, sex ed remains a hot political issue rather than a sober matter of public health." (NATION)
"ABSTINENCE ONLY" FUNDING MAY RISE -- "Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said Tuesday [June 5, 2001] that the administration may seek additional funds for controversial 'abstinence only' sex education programs." (USA TODAY) This article explains how despite opposition from many health experts, the government plans to increase funding for abstinence only sex eduvation programs.
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