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This review article updates our 2006 review of abstinence- only-until-marriage (AOUM) policies and programs promoted by the U.S. government. We use the term AOUM to describe programs and policies that adhere to U.S. federal government funding requirements createdin 1996. This update addresses the major changes in AOUM funding and programs, the ...
By the end of high school, the majority (57%) of teenagers will have had sex, yet abstinence-only programs are not designed to equip them with the information about contraceptives, STIs, consent or healthy communication that they need to safely navigate these experiences. Abstinence-only programs promote judgment, fear, guilt and shame around sex.
Sep 1, 2017 · U.S. federal funding policy adopted such a moralistic definition of “abstinence education” in 1996, for example, requiring it “teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity” [1]. See Table 1 for the federal definition of “abstinence education.”
- John S. Santelli, Leslie M. Kantor, Leslie M. Kantor, Stephanie A. Grilo, Ilene S. Speizer, Laura D....
- 2017
law contained a little noticed mandate of $50 million a year to fund abstinence-only programs. In fact, the law amended the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant legislation (Title V of the Social Security Act) and was groundbreaking, both for its funding level and also for its unprecedented, eight-point definition of abstinence education.
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Jan 1, 2006 · Federally funded abstinence-until-marriage programs discriminate against GLBTQ youth, as federal law limits the definition of marriage to heterosexual couples. Schools and health care providers should encourage abstinence as an important option for adolescents. “Abstinence-only” as a basis for health policy and programs should be abandoned.
- John Santelli, Mary A. Ott, Maureen Lyon, Jennifer Rogers, Daniel Summers, Rebecca Schleifer
- 2006
The “abstinence education” provision in federal law is expected to come up for re-authorization in 2001. It is therefore particularly important that legislators, educators, policy-makers, parents, students and others understand the threat it poses to important First Amendment principles: Abstinence-Only Education Is Censorship.
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Jun 1, 2018 · that schools share information about skills for healthy romantic and sexual relationships, and twenty-seven of those states and the Dis-trict of Columbia require instruction on self-control and decision making about sexuality. 16. B. Federal Funding for Abstinence-Only Programs. In the past, four federal statutes prohibited the federal govern-
