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...bitter battle over sex ed has long raged in this country--and with each year the foes have become more deeply set in their stances. On one side are religious conservatives arguing that sex outside of wedlock is unholy. They have secured millions of federal dollars for abstinence programs that teach about the hazards of contraceptives. The other camp, backed by virtually every major medical organization, contends it is irresponsible to deny kids information about condoms. Now, as Congress is weighing President Bush's proposal to boost abstinence funding by 33% to $135 million, those allegiances are shifting. A small...
...Worth the Wait curriculum. Not only do they train health educators from participating schools, but either a doctor or medical student also gives a guest lecture to students during the semester. If at any point during the program those students say they won't be abstaining until wedlock, they are promptly referred to a medical professional to talk about contraceptives...
...church. "You just feel so spiritual when you leave [the church], but then you get back to normal life," Genelle explains. By then she and Roger were living together at his place in Cypress Hills, a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. The church frowns upon cohabiting out of wedlock--"It's fornication," Genelle says--but they weren't yet ready to marry. Instead they planned a party trip. "We had booked tickets to Miami Carnival for October," she says. "We were really, really looking forward to that...
...REJECTED. An appeal by AMINA LAWAL KURAMI, 30, to overturn a court decision sentencing her to death by stoning for having sex outside of wedlock; in Funtua, Nigeria. Kurami's lawyers plan to appeal the decision to a higher court...
...promoting marriage. Horn believes that sustaining marriages is moral and cost efficient. Nearly three-fourths of children in single-parent families will experience poverty by age 11, vs. about one-fifth of children in two-parent families. Children from intact families are less likely to give birth out of wedlock or get in trouble with the law--both of which end up costing the government a bundle...