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High Marks for Abstinence Education

July 1, 2005

[AT HOME: USA] The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released the results of a five-year study of four abstinence programs that analyzed changes in teens who participated in such programs. The study showed that abstinence programs are effective in teaching teens about the negative consequences of premarital sex and that teens who participated in these programs had less favorable attitudes about sex outside of marriage than their counterparts who did not participate. 
 
Leslee J. Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse, said, “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.”

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