Download or read book The Effect of State Level Sex Education Policies on Youth Sexual Behaviors written by Danielle Atkins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two types of sex education are generally offered in the United States: abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education. There is no clear scientific consensus over which approach minimizes the risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases for teens. While there have been many studies of specific programs in clinical or quasi-experimental settings, there are very few evaluations of how state-level sex education policies affect the youth population. We estimate the impact of various state-level sex education policies on youth sexual activity and contraceptive use using data from four waves of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System from 39 states. We find that states that require sexuality (sex and/or HIV/STD) education and contraceptive content or states that mandate education but leave the actual content up to local districts have higher rates of contraception use when teens are sexually active. States that require sexuality education and require abstinence content decrease the likelihood that sexually active teens use condoms or hormonal birth control. None of the policies significantly reduce sexual activity.
Download or read book EFFECTS OF ALTERNATIVE SEX EDUCATION POLICIES ON ADOLESCENTS SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOR TOWARDS BETTER HIGH SCHOOL SEX EDUCATION written by Weiya Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the effect of current U.S. high school sex education policies on students' sexual risk behavior. While many researchers have attempted to identify the factors that influence adolescent sexual risk behavior, there is a lack of consensus regarding the relation between sex education and adolescents' sexual risky practices. Moreover, none of the studies has investigated the effectiveness of different sex education policies based on the nation-wide data. My research, employing data from the latest 2009 Youth Risky Behavior Survey covering 46 states in a logistic multi-regression model, and controlling for demographic variables and other factors which contribute to risky sexual behaviors. The study demonstrates the different effects of six sex education policy combinations on students' sexual risk behaviors. It finds that all the sex education policies that contain the abstinence-only education are positively related to students' sexual risky behavior. However, comprehensive sex education policies that combine contraception with abstinence education are negatively related to sexual risky behaviors. The most effective sex education policy is the one that covers all four aspects of sex education: general sex education, HIV/STD education, abstinence, and contraception. This conclusion suggest that the ideal sex education policy needs to convince adolescents to postpone sexual activity as a preferred choice, to promote the use of contraception among sexual active youth, and to teach accurate information and negotiating skills to eliminate sexual risk factors in general.
Download or read book State Sex Education Policy written by Gaia Lynn Zori and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: family planning, including contraceptive access, were consistently associated with lower rates of teen pregnancy/birth. Evidence related to abortion, sex education and public assistance policies was inconclusive. Few studies examined state policy's impact on STIs, or the association with minority health disparities, illustrating critical gaps in the literature. Study results further demonstrate that state-level sex education policies mandating sex education or requiring levels of abstinence coverage are significantly associated with adolescent sexual health outcomes, but the significance is not universal and differences in effect exist by race/ethnicity and sexual orientation category. Collectively, these findings can help guide targeted policy decisions, aid in the implementation of policy aimed at the reduction of health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities and SMY, and elucidate areas for essential future research in policy development and implementation related to the promotion of adolescent sexual health.
Download or read book Examining the Effects of Sex Education on Young Adults Sexual Behaviors and Health written by Holly D. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the impact of sex education on sexual health and sexual behaviors in young adults. Using data from the Guttmacher Institute’s National Survey of Reproductive and Contraceptive Knowledge, this research investigates whether education impacts their uses of contraception, visits to the doctor for sexual health, number of sexual partners in a year, and age of first intercourse. Sex education is a topic of sociological interest as it has long been believed that with adequate knowledge on sexuality, sexual health, and resources to contraceptives, teenagers are less likely to engage in risky behaviors. Because this study relates to a public health issue, where contraceptive methods and healthy relationships are emphasized, the findings can contribute to sex education research. Support for positive sexuality education has become favorable to many scholars in the field. The current discussions on sex education in the U.S. are polarized, which makes it important to research the effectiveness of these programs and understand the topics that are included in the curricula. Results show that those who have received a sex education course are not any more likely to have an earlier age of first intercourse nor have a higher number of sexual partners than those who have not received sex education. There is a statistical significance between these groups in that those who have received a sex education course are more likely to make a doctor visit for sexual health related reasons and are more likely to use contraception as compared to those who have not received a sex education course.
Download or read book Sexuality Education for Youths in Care written by Bronwyn Mayden and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research indicates that youth in out-of-home care are at high risk of engaging in early, unprotected sexual activity, yet these youth often lack access to information on sexuality and family planning services. States were surveyed on their policies regarding the provision of sexuality education and family planning for youth in out-of-home care; the provision of sexuality education training for caseworkers and foster parents; statistics on the number of girls who become pregnant while in care or come into care pregnant; and the prevalence of adolescent pregnancy for youth in care. The work contains the survey results and concludes with recommendations for health assessments, data collection, programs, and policies.
Download or read book The 2013 National School Climate Survey written by Kosciw Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex Youth and Sex Education written by David Campos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-04-23 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative reference that discusses the history of sex education and its ramifications in the United States. Community and school officials, parents, and educators often stay to the wee hours of the night at PTA meetings arguing about sex education and sexual behavior among young people. While some groups preach abstinence and attempt to sign as many youngsters as possible to their rosters, it remains a fact that 50 percent of U.S. teenagers, beginning at age 15, are sexually active. Sex, Youth, and Sex Education is a wonderfully crafted resource that gives not only a statistical overview of sexual activity in schools, but also examines sex education, the scourge of sexual violence in schools, and sexuality among selected groups of youngsters. What emerges is a groundbreaking work for educators and students of sociology, psychology, and education. This work brings to light the fascinating—not to mention ubiquitous—world of sexuality among today's youth and its impact on parents, school personnel, policymakers, and society.
Download or read book Sex Education and the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy written by Peter Scales and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health consequences of sexuality education on selected secondary school adolescents written by Blessing Adegoke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Study from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Children and Youth, grade: 1.0, Bowdoin College, language: English, abstract: This study was designed to examine the health consequences of sexuality education among senior secondary school adolescent in select school in Epe Area of Lagos State. It was five chapters, thorough and well researched project work. Each of the chapters of the study work contained a new and fresh information on the study. The chapter one of the study examined the introductory part as in statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, hypotheses, delimitation, limitation and scope of the study. In chapter two, related and relevant topics to the study were reviewed to serve as theoretical framework to the study. The chapter three was succulently written to discuss the methods and procedures adopted in the course of conducting the study it also revealed the research instrument used, how it was administrated and analysed, were also discussed. A total number of seven hundred were randomly selected as sample for the study, having used eight senior secondary school adolescent in Epe area of Lagos State. The chapter four was analytically and descriptively written to present the data sourced through the use of questionnaire for analysis and hypothesis testing. The findings, showed that the respondents had adequate knowledge about sexuality education and its health consequences, was attributed to the various campaigns being mounted by government and non-governments organisation and by extension, the respondents exhibited some positive sexual behaviours.
Download or read book Three Essays on Education Policies and Child Health written by Lu Yin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In models in which we control for student-level fixed effects, we find strong evidence that with the increase of teacher evaluation standards students tend to have higher BMI and are more likely to be overweight. The third essay examines the impact of State-Sex-Education policies as well as the new Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, the Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Program on adolescent risk behaviors. To account for the potential differential impacts of 1996 Title V Section 510 had upon state sex education mandates which will subsequently bias our analysis, we thus employ an Interrupted Time-Series design that first exploits the impact of 1996 reform on state sex education legislatives and identify their effects on adolescent sexual behaviors subsequently. First, we find that neither abstinence-only nor comprehensive sex education decrease the probability of being sexually active or increase the likelihood of performing safe sex. Instead, we find that abstinence-only lower the probability of using condoms and birth control pills relative to not using any birth control method. Second, using the ITS model, we find that the trend in percentage of students who had sex (percentage of students who had sex before 13) decreases by 0.5% in high-implement states relative to low-implement states post 1996 reform.
Download or read book Has Sex Education Failed Our Teenagers written by Dinah Richard and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the effects of sex education on the rates of teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and abortions.
Download or read book Emerging Answers written by Douglas Kirby and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes three bodies of research on teenage pregnancy and programs to reduce the risk of teenage pregnancy. Studies included in this report were completed in 1980 or later, conducted in the United States or Canada, targeted adolescents, employed an experimental or quasi-experimental design, had a sample size of at least 100 in the combined treatment and control group, and measured the impact on sexual or contraceptive behavior, pregnancy, or childbearing. Six chapters focus on: (1) "Making the Case for Prevention Efforts: Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior and Its Consequences"; (2) "Looking for Reasons Why: The Antecedents of Adolescent Sexual Behavior"; (3) "Assessing the Evidence: Factors Affecting the Strength of Research Results"; (4) "Emerging Answers: The Behavioral Impact of Programs To Reduce Adolescent Sexual Risk-Taking"; (5) "Looking Forward: Conclusions about the State of Research and the Effectiveness of Programs"; and (6) "Bringing It Home: Applying These Research Results in Communities." (Chapters contain references.) (SM)
Download or read book International technical guidance on sexuality education written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical Analysis of Sexuality Education in the United States written by Tiffani Kocsis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Critical Analysis of Sexuality Education in the United States explores the development of sexuality education in North America and uses economic, legal, and psychological paradigms to identify and trace exclusionary programming and practices in schools. By analyzing legal and political documents, as well as state and private curricula, this insightful text considers the historical and contemporary experiences of adolescents in connection to the social structures of sexuality education. Challenging the current state of sex education in the United States, in terms of both content and delivery, the chapters succinctly illustrate how schools are failing to meet the developmental needs of all students. Student perspectives and evidence-based research demonstrate that an exclusionary curriculum is failing to equip students with the knowledge and understanding they require to undergo a process of empowerment about their sexuality, and engage in safe, informed, and consensual sexual activity. Finally, by employing a rights-based approach to sexuality education, the author offers important recommendations for change in state and federal curricula. Offering unique and comprehensive insight into the state of sex education in the United States, this text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, academics, researchers, policy-makers, and libraries in the fields of sexuality education, education policy and politics, sociology of education, gender studies, and curriculum studies.
Download or read book Contraception at First Sex written by Jane Mauldon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teenage Pregnancy and Young Parenthood written by Alison Hadley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened next? This updated edition of Teenage Pregnancy and Young Parenthood examines the research and practice in this vital field since the end of the UK Government’s highly successful Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (TPS) for England which contributed to reducing the under-18 pregnancy rate by well over 50%. Alison Hadley, together with Roger Ingham, Joanna Nichols and Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, summarise the latest research in the field, review the work of a wide range of local authorities, and provide insight from interviews with practitioners who are at the sharp end of delivering services both for young people seeking to prevent early pregnancy and for young parents. Providing a comprehensive overview of the original project, the book captures and shares the lessons from the TPS, documents the details of implementing a long-term strategy with its innovative approach to policy issues, and considers the implications of the study internationally. Advocating a ‘whole systems’ multi-agency approach, it focusses on how to implement policy successfully, and demonstrates evidence for what is effective, both in helping young people avoid unplanned pregnancy and in improving outcomes for young parents. This edition also considers how to sustain the gains made by the original strategy. Key new topics covered include: an overview of the national context since 2016 through the pandemic; the introduction of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE); access to contraception and sexual health service; and addressing inequalities. As in the first edition of the book, a chapter is devoted to efforts to reduce adolescent childbearing elsewhere in the world. It contains country case studies from Argentina, Ethiopia, Moldova and Thailand which illustrate what can be achieved with visionary leadership, rigorous science, and strong management in diverse contexts. Teenage Pregnancy and Young Parenthood is essential reading for policy makers and practitioners dealing with young people’s health, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of psychology, health studies, social work, youth work, education, social policy, sociology and related disciplines.
Download or read book Adolescent Sexuality written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
