comprehensive sex education

Many teens don't keep virginity pledges

MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who take virginity pledges are just as likely to have sex as teens who don't make such promises -- and they're less likely to practice safe sex to prevent disease or pregnancy, a new study finds.

Premarital Abstinence Pledges Are Ineffective, Research Shows

Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.

Young Adults Use Training to Become Advocates for Comprehensive Sex Education

With the election ending only a couple of weeks ago, Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast wasted no time training 12 new public policy advocates at its Young Activist Advocacy Institute, which was held on Saturday, November 15th in Fort Lauderdale.

Sex Education Survey for Schools

The Healthy Teens Campaign is currently surveying all public and charter schools in Florida to better understand the sex education curriculums taught within the county's schools.  Click here to access, complete and submit this simple one-page survey online. 

Volusia Schools To Consider Expanding Sex Education

DAYTONA BEACH -- Sex education could be expanded in Volusia County high schools to include birth control information if Superintendent Margaret Smith and the School Board go along with a recommendation from a diverse advisory committee that studied the issue.

"They were really concerned (high school students) should have contraception information. That was the focus of the group," said Emily Cortes-Torrado, chairwoman of Volusia's School Health Advisory Committee.

For Healthier Teens

Florida law mandates that sex-education programs in public schools teach "abstinence from sexual activity as the expected standard for all school-age children while teaching the benefits of monogamous heterosexual marriage."


But many Volusia County students don't live in that Ward-and-June world.