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Chicago was one of the first big cities to teach sex education. This program did not last long because the Catholic Church formed a campaign to force the superintendent of schools to resign. http://www.siecus.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Feature.showFeature&featureid=2257&pageid=483&parentid=478
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Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn New York. Not only did the clinic provide birth control to females, but it also offered vast amounts of information for parents and children as well as counseling to those who needed it.
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This manual was paperback and contained subject matter about sexual topics that the Public Health Services felt was necessary for high school students to be aware of.
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Not only sexuality education was being taught but also self esteem, responsibilities, and decision making.
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Around this time there was a major increase in HIV and AIDS. School systems thought at this time that it would be beneficial to start implementing sex education into the health curriculum.
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250 million dollars was given to abstinence only sex education funding. This was part of the welfare reform act. Abstinence only sex education programs only taught students that being abstinece was the only accetable thing to do. They did not teach about the facts of sex and the STI/STD's that came along with it.
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This act was made to provide adolescents with comprehensive sexuality education, This is so that youth can make resposible decisions regarding sex and relationships.
http://www.siecus.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=1347&nodeID=1
