What’s happening in the US?
December 9, 2007 at 5:42 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentHere are some US statistics…
A recent pole showed that over 90 percent of parents in the US agreed that schools should be obligated to provide comprehensive sex education. (1)
Yet approximately half of our states are primarily teaching abstinence only. (2)
Currently 66% of schools in Illinois are not providing students with a comprehensive approach to sex education. (3)
There are 18.9 million new cases of STDs each year, and Although 15-24-year-olds represent only one-quarter of the sexually active population, they account for nearly half of these new STDs
A heterosexual, sexually active teenage female who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year. (4)
1. Sex Education in America: General Public/Parents Survey. (Washington, DC: National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation, Kennedy School of Government, 2004), 5.
2. Teen Pregnancy, state by state comparison
3. Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health
4. Guttmacher Institute,
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