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Abstinence-only sex education

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Abstinence-only sex education is a set of curricula used in many schools which teaches that the best way to avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases is by abstaining from sex before marriage. The amount spent on such programs has dramatically increased during the Bush administration[1], and have been widely criticised for their heavy religious content, their ineffectiveness and their misrepresentation of science.

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  1. ↑ United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform Special Investigations Division, The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs, December 2004, prepared for Representative Henry Waxman
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