Toward a Sexually Healthy America: Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs that Try to Keep Our Youth

Abstract:
This resource is a guide to help educators, parents, and community members understand the common characteristics of abstinence-only-until-marriage education programs. There has been a proliferation of such programs in recent years. The authors feel many of these programs are designed to instill fear, shame and guilt in order to control young people's sexual activity behavior. Omitted from many of these programs is important information such as reproductive health, body image, sexual identity, and finding additional help. Included in the report are examples of fear based abstinence only programs, in addition to examples of abstinence based programs SEICUS feels are appropriate and based on facts instead of fear.


Date Published: 6/1/2001

Pages: 69

Comments:
Please contact SEICUS at 212-819-9770 or at www.seicus.org to obtain a copy of this report.

Location Code: 6421