Sex Education Delays Teens' Sexual Activity, Study Shows
By: Stephanie Pappas
03/08/2012
Teens who receive formal sex education wait longer to have sex, a new study finds — and when they do get around to doing the deed, they're more likely than teens who haven't had sex ed to use contraception.
The study couldn't fully tease out the differences between abstinence-only sex education and sex education that also includes discussion of birth control methods, but the researchers wrote that contrary to some critics' beliefs, there is no evidence that sex education encourages teens to have sex sooner or to take more sexual risks...
For the full article, go to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/sex-education-teens_n_1335319.html
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