For those interested in sex educationFollow

Highlights and trends from this edition of the State Profiles include:

· According to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and confirmed by SIECUS’ research, which oversees the Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program, 25 states will no longer be participating in the program at the end of Fiscal Year 2008. This totals nearly $24 million in unspent monies.

· Health data released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the last year reveal one in four teenage girls are infected with an STI and nearly half of all African American teenage girls are infected.

· Other data from the biennially released Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System shows little change in important health behaviors. This data shows disparities in sexual health behaviors among race, ethnicity, and geographic location.

· Texas received the highest amount of funding: $18,213,472.

· Four states received no abstinence-only-until-marriage funding: Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, and Vermont. This is the first time since 1998 that any individual state has no federal abstinence-only-until-marriage funding coming into its jurisdiction.

· The majority of abstinence-only-until-marriage funding is concentrated in southern states; these 17 states received nearly half of all allocated funding ($84.6 million).

· Kentucky and Illinois distribute the greatest amount of funding to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs).

· CPCs receive abstinence-only-until-marriage funds in 23 states, totaling nearly $14 .

· Evidence continues to mount against abstinence-only-until-marriage programs with the first ever Congressional hearing on the effectiveness of federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. The majority of the health professionals called for an end to federal funding for the programs and said that funds should instead be spent on comprehensive sexuality education that has been proven to be effective.

· Three states passed laws requiring sex education to be medically accurate if taught in public schools. Additionally, the State Boards of Education in California and the District of Columbia passed updated standards for sex education, requiring it to be comprehensive, age-appropriate, and medically accurate.

Three states passed laws requiring sex education to be medically accurate if taught in public schools.

Samy,



You just don't get that it's not the duty of the govn to be teaching this in the first place.

Oh and Obama is for teaching sex-ed to kindergartners. The govn is already pushing books like "Janie has two Moms". This is more than just the govn telling people when, and how, to have sex.

Yeah parents shouldn't be taken seriously when they tell their child not to have sex until they're married. I mean the govn says it's ok to f*ck whoever, whenever, they want.

Of course you liberals want more single parent households which become dependent on govn taxes to raise those bastards. Along with minorities this is your base.

Can we still refer to children born out of wedlock as bastards?

Why do you & McCain want to protect child molesters and baby-diddlers?

If someone doesn't know what their "junk" is for by 13, in this day and age, they are a f*cking ******.

I didn't know until around 14 and I was a 4.0 student at the time (for what it's worth, anyway), so I'd say the ****** thing is out. You should have seen the look on my face when I was on a family trip to Europe/Scandinavia around that time and I happened to catch some porno flick on the TV at one of the "hotels" we stayed at. It got even better once I was asking my mom exactly what it was that I saw (at that point in time, I had no clue what it was that I had seen).

But yes, let's blame people like me for not knowing, when it was really just the people responsible for educating them that were sorely lacking in that regard, shall we?

I knew most of the mechanics before puberty, but I always thought the sperm was in our urine when I was a little kid, lol.

Are you unclear on the meaning of "par"? This is what he always does.