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...students during the school day while students’ parents are at work, but this policy works to undermine the authority of the parents. By allowing these teen and pre-teen students to receive these contraceptives—which can cause hormone levels to fluctuate and facilitate unprotected sexual contact—the school is in practice betraying the trust placed in it by the parents of its students. While this action would be permissible in a private school, the fact that the school where this program is being enacted is public makes it objectionable, because taxpayer dollars are being...
...scene is remembered for the much-imitated smooch at the shoreline, but it's more mature and complicated than that. From Here to Eternity helped Hollywood approach themes of sexual yearning and remorse in a more mature fashion. The movement could have no finer exemplars than Lancaster, the wily male animal, and Kerr, the lady who revealed, with her subtlety and daring, that things may never be quite what they seem...
...health, education, and the economy in Uganda. The 21-year civil war between the established government and a rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has displaced 1.7 million people, according to Human Rights Watch. The conflict is blamed for the abduction of children, an increase in sexual violence, and consequently the spread of AIDS. “The conflict in northern Uganda is the biggest forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today,” Jan Egeland, the United Nation’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said in 2003. HHRA and the Harvard...
...Many parents caught in the middle wrestle with the charge that it sends a mixed message to kids to urge that they delay sex and then approve contraception distribution in middle school. But does it? "It has been shown, over and over again, that this does not increase sexual activity," said Pat Patterson, the medical director of School-Based Health Centers. And most parents, in fact, WANT kids to get both messages; a 2005 survey from the Pew Forum found that 78% want public schools to teach about birth control, and 76% think schools should teach kids to abstain from...
...recent years the "middle ground" has been an approach called Abstinence Plus, which would both stress the value of delaying sexual activity but also provide more comprehensive information than the traditional abstinence programs that now qualify for federal funding. Conservative critics charge that "abstinence plus" doesn't really promote abstinence at all; one Heritage Foundation study argued that the typical "abstinence plus" curriculum devotes six times more space to promoting contraception than promoting abstinence. But you could argue that the evidence points to the value of a combined approach, that far from being mixed, the messages belong together: experts argue...