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		<title>Does abstinence-only sex education work? The debate heats up</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do sex education programs that emphasize abstinence really work? The issue is on the boil thanks to rising teen pregnancy rates and the high profile of Sarah Palin&#8217;s daughter Bristol, herself an unwed teenage mother. Now a pair of new studies reveals a complex answer to a flashpoint debate in the culture wars. In one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstinence-only sex education debate intensifies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A jump in America&#8217;s teen birth rate &#8211; after 14 years of declines &#8211; is sharpening the debate over sex education in the nation&#8217;s schools. The increase, reported Dec. 5, 2007, renewed calls from some quarters to curtail federal funding for abstinence-only education programs, which have been strongly promoted by the Bush administration. Others, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth and consequences: the abstinence-only education debate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate on how best to teach youth about sex is polarizing the nation. Everyone wants to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease &#8211; and everyone agrees that abstinence would do that. But parents, medical professionals, religious groups and policy-makers are locked in fierce debate about what information to include in public schools&#8217; sex [...]]]></description>
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