Abstinence Only Education

Teaching Abstinence: Still Not Cool

Sascha Elise Cohen | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media

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Sascha Elise Cohen

Sexual naiveté and repression make for a bad wedding present. Wow, thanks honey, you don't know a uterus from a uvula! I'm so glad I married someone who thinks we pee out of our belly buttons!

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Teenage Wasteland? Only If We Don't React

Marissa Miley | Posted 06.05.2008 | Living

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Marissa Miley

Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its biannual Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data and revealed that across the nation, teens' condom use has flat-lined since 2003.

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Mother's Day Born Yesterday: A Quick Century of Big Change for Modern Moms

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living

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Elizabeth Gregory

The centennial Mother's Day offers us an occasion to look back at the transformations the world of motherhood has undergone since the holiday's start.

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What's Dumb About the "Elitism" Debate

Cindy Handler | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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Cindy Handler

There's a good chance that graduates of the best universities in the country do know more than people who haven't. Since when did real life experience and education become mutually exclusive?

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States Increasingly Refusing Funds For Abstinence-Only Programs

Washington Post | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

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The number of states refusing federal money for "abstinence-only" sex education programs jumped sharply in the past year as evidence mounted that the ...

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