Does The National Campaign endorse abstinence-only or comprehensive sex education?
In the battle between abstinence education and comprehensive education, The National Campaign is firmly on the side of science. In 1996, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy was formed to help address the alarming rate of teen pregnancy in America. From the outset, The National Campaign knew that to make a dent in this problem, it had to be a non-partisan, non-ideological organization that could bridge the fundamental and meaningful value disagreements that exist on the issue. The National Campaign publishes research on the fundamental question: What programs/curricula have the best evidence of success? As we have noted in several publications, at present, those programs that discuss both abstinence and the importance of sexually active teens using contraception consistently and carefully have the best evidence of success. See Emerging Answers 2007 and What Works. It is also the case that the majority of the American public do not view abstinence and contraception as competi
