Sex Education Links
- Parents' Rights Coalition Conservative group providing information and criticism on gay-related education materials and programs.
- Sexuality Education: How Americans Really Feel An analysis of how Americans feel about sexuality education.
- Teaching Fear: The Religious Right's Campaign Against Sexuality Education 1996 essay by People for the American Way describes the controversy over different approaches to teaching about sex and sexuality: comprehensive sexuality education vs. a focus on abstaining from all sexual activity until marriage. Essay advocates the comprehensive approach.
- Pregnancy Prevention Very large list of Internet links and references on education programs and other measures to prevent adolescent pregnancy.
- Kaiser Daily Health Reports: Reproductive Health Daily reports on reproductive issues; includes sex-education topics.
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP) Non-profit organization with a mission to prevent teen pregnancy by supporting values and stimulating actions that are consistent with a pregnancy-free adolescence.
- Trend Toward Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Means Many U.S. Teenagers Are Not Getting Vital Messages About Contraception Report of an Alan Guttmacher Institute study.
- Does Sex Education Work? Article reviews research and argues that a comprehensive risk prevention strategy should use multiple elements to protect as many of those at risk of pregnancy and STD/HIV infection as possible.
- Mother's Voices National grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to HIV/ AIDS advocacy and education. Includes advice for parents wanting to talk to their children about sex.
- Sexuality Education in the Schools: Issues and Answers Site argues that school-based sexuality education programs conducted by specially-trained educators can add an important dimension to children's ongoing sexual learning.
- Parents for A Responsible Health Curriculum Parent organization to inform parents of laws regarding health education and to promote parental involvement in the development of school health curriculum.
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the US (SIECUS) Promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices.
- A Look at the 'Sex Respect' Curriculum Critique of abstinence-only sexuality education, from Rethinking Schools, a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials. (Summer 1998)
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