Summary
Abstinence and comprehensive sex education may help stem the increasing cases of teenage pregnancies in the US which number to about one million each year. The 1996 welfare reform package provided for $50 million to teach the value of sexual abstinence before marriage to teens. Eighteen other states followed suit with their own programs in 1998. However, sex education advocates insist that abstinence is useless among teenagers who are already sexually active. They would rather see the government spend on information programs on reproductive choice, sexual behavior and sexually-transmitted diseases.
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Programs help prevent teen pregnancy.
Approximately 1 million teenage girls become pregnant each year in the United States. But two different programs with supp...
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