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Executive Director Andrea Lafferty and Founder Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
The Traditional Values Coalition is an inter-denominational public policy organization speaking on behalf of over 43,000 churches. |
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HHS Releases Report On Abstinence Education
June 16, 2005 – The Department of Health & Human Services has just released the results of a five-year study of four abstinence programs. The study was prepared for HHS by the Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
“First-Year Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs” analyzed attitudinal change not necessarily behavioral changes in teens who participated in abstinence programs.
The study found that abstinence programs are effective in teaching teens about the negative consequences of teen and non-marital sex; thought more highly of abstinent behaviors; and had less favorable attitudes about sex outside of marriage than teens who did not participate in abstinence programs.
Leslee J. Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse stated: “The evidence from this and other studies is overwhelming; abstinence education results in self-confident, healthy kids. Every child in America deserves the best. When it comes to health instruction, the best is abstinence … “
The Heritage Foundation has produced studies that also show the effectiveness of abstinence education in changing sexual behaviors. Here is one: “More Evidence of the Effectiveness of Abstinence Education Programs.”
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