What Is the Effect of Abstinence-Only Sex Education Programs

question 7

Multiple Choice

What is the effect of abstinence-only sex education programs?

• A) They work very well: young people who take abstinence vows tend to keep them and to have incomparably low rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
• B) There is no evidence that they work; rather, they spread misinformation and their participants have the same rates of sexually transmitted diseases.
• C) While they do not tend to decrease rates of sexually transmitted diseases in their participants, they do an outstanding job of disseminating information about sexuality to young people.
• D) They have almost no effect, positive or negative: studies show that teens nationwide ignore them altogether.

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