abstinence education

What teens are - and are not - learning about in sex education classes, plus what we should all learn about pornography.

The CDC has found that the share of teenage girls who use the rhythm method as birth control (at least some of the time) jumped from 11 percent in 2002 to 17 percent in 2008. 

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When the smoke cleared from health reform, we found out that a quarter of a billion dollars had been inserted into the bill ostensibly as a "sweetner" for conservatives.

Last summer, the $50 million-a-year federal Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage grant program died a quiet death, only to come back to life, zombie-like, in the healthcare reform bill.