A national director of Teen-Aid, a nonprofit organization started in 1981 to try to reduce teen pregnancies. The group, based in Spokane, Wash., believes the best method is abstinence education. Its Web site lists laws and statistics pertaining to sexuality, education and government funding for all 50 states.

Stephanie Ventura heads the reproductive statistics branch of the National Center for Health Statistics.

The University of Pennsylvania professor who led the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine study. He says it’s now possible to assert that abstinence-only education can be effective, although the journal published an editorial with the study cautioning that public policy should not be based on the results of a single study alone. In a […]

A Los Angeles Times story on the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine study.

A New York Times story on the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine study.

A New York Times editorial on the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine study, which showed abstinence-only education can help discourage sexual activity.

A Christian Newswire story about Concerned Women for America’s criticism of federal reporting on the new birth rate data.

A Washington Post story about a congressional report that found inaccuracies in some government-funded sex education programs that teach abstinence only.

Watch a documentary about 15-year-old, Southern Baptist Shelby Knox; who becomes an unlikely proponent of comprehensive sex education from Lubbock, Texas.