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The Meeting...
Grace Dodge retired president of Harvard and other prominent members of the society in her dining room in New York to discuss "the reform element". -
ASHA Created
American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA) was created on Valentine's Day. ASHA championed sex education. -
U.S. Public Health Service
In 1940, the U.S. Public Health Service strongly advocated sexuality education in the schools, labeling it an "urgent need." In 1953, the American School Health Association launched a nationwide program in family life education. -
ASHA has a remedy!
The American Social Hygenie Association publication hailed family life/sex education as the remedy for divorce, masturbation, lack of self-control in sexual and financial life, delinquency, crime, and marriages of 'differing races, religions and nationalities". -
SIECUS
SIECUS-the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States- was founded in 1964 to provide education and information about sexuality and sexual and reproductive health. -
Sex Education Adaoption
By 1989, 23 states had passed mandates for sexuality education, an additional 23 states strongly encouraged sex education, 33 mandated AIDS education and 17 additional states recommended it. -
Georgia Sexuality Education Law and Policy
Since 1989, schools in Georgia have been required to teach sexuality education and sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV-prevention education. Local school boards are largely responsible for deciding the specific subjects this education must cover and the grade level in which topics are introduced. -
Cali HIV/AIDS education
Since 1992, California public schools have been required to teach HIV/AIDS prevention education at least once in middle school and once in high school. EC Section 51931(d) defines HIV/AIDS prevention education as: “Instruction on the nature of HIV/AIDS, methods of transmission, strategies to reduce the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and social and public health issues related to HIV/AIDS.” -
Welfare Reform
As part of welfare reform, Congress passed legislation in 1996 allocating $50 million in federal funds for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs—which censor information about contraception. -
$$$ Money for Abstinence Programs
In 2000, conservative lawmakers upset by what they saw as states’ dilution of the abstinence-until-marriage message (some states were using Title V funds for media campaigns, youth development, and after school programs that lawmakers felt were not sufficiently focused on abstinence), created an additional $20 million federal funding stream, the Special Projects of Regional and National Significance–Community-Based Abstinence Education (SPRANS-CBAE) -
Does It work??
According to Anna Mulrine at U.S. News & World Report, records show that professionals still do not know what method of sex education works best to keep teens from engaging in sexual activity but they are still working to find out.
According to a 2007 report, Teen pregnancies in the United States showed 3% increase in the teen birth rate from 2005 to 2006, to nearly 42 births per 1,000. -
Eliminating Finding.
In December 2009, Congress passed an appropriations bill that eliminated the majority of funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. This major victory marked the culmination of a decade-long campaign to promote honest, accurate, and comprehensive sex education in America. More than $100 million in annual CBAE funding for abstinence-only programs have been reallocated to evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention and sex education initiatives. -
CDC Surveys
CDC surveys assessed the percentage of schools in each state that teach specific topics related to HIV, STD and pregnancy prevention revealed Sex Education Efforts Lagging in Schools. -
Comprehensive AIDS and Sexuality education
In 1986, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report calling for comprehensive AIDS and sexuality education in public schools, beginning as early as the third grade.
