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Focus on the Family meets China

logointern3 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:00:33 +0000

Chinese school districts in the Yunnan Province have teamed up with Focus on the Family to bring an abstinence-only curriculum to the region’s teenage population.

The province’s ministry of(...)

Sen. Hatch wants abstinence-until-marriage programs back

logointern2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:38:04 +0000

The Advocate reported that anti-gay Senator Orrin Hatch wants to reinstate funding for the Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.

The Bush Administration implemented this form of(...)

Future of abstinence-only funding in limbo

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:44:50 +0000

(New York City) With the exit of the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an(...)

Abstinence Only Program Moving Toward Renewal

logointern1 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:27 +0000

(Washington) Despite a growing body of evidence showing it is not only ineffective but also discriminatory toward LGBT youth a renewal of the Bush administration’s abstinence-only-until-marriage program for schools appears likely in Congress. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies has voted to continue funding the Community-Based Abstinence [...]