An abstinence advocate says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control shows that abstinence education is delaying sex among teens.
Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, says the results came from ten different studies provided by six different authors. She also notes that two members of the panel reported that abstinence education programs "produced a statistically significant reduction in teen sexual activity for periods averaging about one year." "The most significant finding in terms of the effectiveness of abstinence education was that those students [included in the studies] were less likely to initiate sexual activity or to discontinue [sexual activity], which is exactly the purpose of abstinence education," Huber reports. "So it certainly should be instructive to policy makers as they are deciding how to use taxpayer dollars in the year 2010." Huber says that despite this new evidence, Congress and the Obama administration have "zeroed out all funding for abstinence education in their 2010 budget."
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