How to Support Sexual Education

General Facts

• Comprehensive Sex Education: Research and Results
• Effective Sex Education
• The Truth About Abstinence-Only Programs
• Sex Education Programs: Definitions & Point-by-Point Comparison
• Characteristics of Effective Sex Education Programs
• Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the U.S.—Why the Difference?
• Condom Effectiveness

Support for Comprehensive Sex Education Polls have shown that parents, teachers, health care professionals, and young people all support sex education that is comprehensive and provides information about abstinence as well as contraception and condoms.

• Americans Support Comprehensive Sex Ed
• American Medical Association’s Recommendation for Good Sex Ed
• Speaking Out! Connecticut’s Parents and Other Adults Want Comprehensive Sex Education in Schools
• SEX ED LIBRARY  http://www.sexedlibrary.org/

Advocates’ Position on Comprehensive Sex Education. Read what Advocates has to say about abstinence-only programs in op-eds, speeches, and public information campaigns.

• Sex Education: Isn’t It Time To Listen To The Pediatricians, Not The Politicians? (pdf)
• Teens Need Information, Not Censorship — Remarks by James Wagoner
• European Approaches to Adolescent Sexual Behavior & Responsibility (pdf)
  • Executive Summary & Call to Action