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Does sex education help prevent unwanted teenage pregnancy?

April 26, 2017Education help pregnancy sex teenage unwanted

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Does sex education help prevent unwanted teenage pregnancy?

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Yes. All the latest research indicates sex education as opposed to abstinence only education prevents teen pregnancies: “Substantial research, including a 2007 Bush administration report, has concluded that comprehensive sex education programs are most effective at changing teen sexual behaviors.” http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2009/oct/18/teen-pregnancy-down/ And this from SIECUS http://www.siecus.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Feature.showFeature&featureID=1041 “In comparing abstinence-only programs with comprehensive sex education, comprehensive sex education was associated with a 50% lower risk of teen pregnancy” And this quote from here: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTON47250120080324 “The bottom line is that there is strong evidence that comprehensive sex education is more effective than abstinence-only education at preventing teen pregnancies,” said lead researcher Pamela K. Kohler, of the Center for AIDS and STD at the University of Washington in Seattle. She to