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Eighty-six percent of the respondents agree that sex-education courses should be taught in school, and 83% agree with the Surgeon General's recommendation that schools should teach children about AIDS. Only 23% agree with the Surgeon General's recommendation to teach children about AIDS as early as age 8; even fewer people (17%) think sex-education courses should be offered to 8- year-olds. However, large majorities support the idea of giving older children specifics about...
Teach students that sex at too early an age is harmful...
Only 24% think sex education would make students more likely to engage in sex at an earlier age. (Opponents of sex education disagree: 49% think the courses would make students more likely to experiment with sex.) Most people (78%) think sexually active youngsters would be more likely to practice birth control if they had some sex education. People also say schools should provide students with birth-control information -- but not with contraceptives...
...have shown that about 80% of Americans favor sex education in the public schools. In the wake of Koop's dramatic report, a poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman found that instruction is now favored by 86%, perhaps the highest number ever; 89% want such courses for children age 12 to deal with birth-control information, and about three-quarters say homosexuality and abortion should be included in the curriculum (see box). "AIDS will definitely change the nature of sex education as we know it," said Harvey Fineberg, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. "It will lead...
...differences may lie in an emerging agreement on one basic. A number of cities are turning up evidence that most youngsters are looking for an excuse to abstain. In 1980 the teen services program at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital found that of the thousand or so girls under age 16 it saw each year, the overwhelming majority (87%) wanted to learn how to say no without hurting anyone's feelings. Grady responded with a program for eighth-graders called "Postponing Sexual Involvement." It is now taught in 23 Atlanta-area schools, focusing on decision making, assertiveness...