Empowering your kids about sexual boundaries is important: “Our findings suggest that women were thinking about risks and making calculated decisions in the moment which often privileged men, putting themselves at risk and sometimes causing distress.”
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"Some scholars argue that if we could eliminate unintended pregnancy, we would disrupt the poverty cycle in such a profound way that we would make the largest single-issue dent possible to poverty in the industrialized world."
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Can you teach old people new tricks? The answer is YES!
"After the training, acceptance of lesbian women and gay men and gender diversity had increased, while attitudes toward gender and sexual minorities became more positive"
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Most abstinence-only sex ed programs rely on scare tactics and shame strategies (many of which are demonstrated in the stories provided in this project) that stigmatize sex and stunt healthy sexual development.
Read stories from real people below!
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Did your sex ed classes offer any support or resources for students who had been sexually abused (such as teaching that it was not their fault, providing mental health resources, informational websites, etc.)?
Here is a parent's guide to keeping your children safe from sexual abuse, and how to support your children if they disclose being abused.
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Curious about sex ed in medieval Christianity?
"Sexual behavior was monitored through confessions, and appropriate penalties were administered. Through this negative or punishment‐oriented technique, a consciousness of sin concerning sex was developed"
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