In the Commentary “Education and the Path to a Sexually Healthy Nation” (May 9, 2012), authors Debra Hauser, Monica Rodriguez, Elizabeth Schroeder, and Danene Sorace start off with an untrue ...

As the Prince George’s County Health Department slices a $25,000 abstinence-education program, a new nonprofit has formed to more than fill the void, backed by $600,000 in federal grants. The county ...

Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported Monday in a landmark study that could ...

Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male ...

Oppose Appropriation of Funds for Abstinence-Only-Until Marriage Programs During the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee's Consideration of the Labor, ...

Half a dozen 13-year-old boys munch pizza and slurp soda as they watch a video on how to resist peer pressure. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

In the past 12 years, the U.S. has spent more than $1.4 billion funding abstinence programs in Africa. They're part of a larger program — called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — aimed ...

Students who participated in sexual-abstinence education programs partially funded by the federal government were just as likely to have sex, and had the same number of sexual partners, as those who ...

EASTON, Mass. — A summer camp in New York changed Jordan Payne's life forever. That's where she heard a positive message for chastity from Denny Pattyn, director of the Silver Ring Thing, an ...

Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Abstinence-only sex education can work -- if it's based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes about other types of risky behavior like ...

On Monday, New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat complained that liberals misinterpreted news that teen pregnancies had risen in the Bush years, when abstinence-only education was ...