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Transcript: "Lets talk about SEX...." Who wants to be a grandparent by the time they are 30 years old?!?! How many of you know a peer who experienced an unplanned pregnancy? How did that effect their life? Sex Education "Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework." -BILL COSBY Abstinence-Only Programs Are Dangerous, Ineffective, and Inaccurate. Each year, U.S. teens experience as many as 850,000 pregnancies, and youth under age 25 experience about 9.1 million sexually transmitted infections Offer age- and culturally appropriate sexual health information in a safe environment for participants Assist youth to clarify their individual, family, and community values Assist youth to develop skills in communication, refusal Provide medically accurate information about both abstinence and also contraception, including condoms Have clear goals for preventing HIV, other STIs, and/or teen pregnancy Characteristics of an Effective Sex Education winner! " The main cause of STI transmission is ignorance" - Garrett Maier Analysis of federally funded abstinence-only curricula found that over 80 percent of curricula supported by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services contained false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health. Specifically, they conveyed: False information about the effectiveness of contraceptives False information about the risks of abortion Religious beliefs as scientific fact Stereotypes about boys and girls as scientific fact Medical and scientific errors