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The Healthy Youth Act in California, a department of Education mandate on January 1, 2016, requires school districts to provide students with integrated, comprehensive, accurate and comprehensive health and HIV prevention education from trained instructors at least once in middle school and once in high school. [39]
A 2011 study in Harris County Texas, conducted by the University of Texas Health Center, revealed that of the 1,201 parents who completed the survey, 93% of parents supported teaching sex education in school, 80% felt that sex education instruction should begin in middle school or prior to middle school and two thirds of survey participants ...
Sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. For sexual health to be attained and maintained, the sexual rights of all persons must be respected, protected and fulfilled ...
Nearly seven in 10 LGBTQ students reported feeling unsafe at school in 2021 because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, according to new data released this week.
“One in five women will experience completed or attempted rape during their lifetime.” If this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistic sounds familiar, it’s because it has not ...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has stated that training is part of the prevention of sexual harassment in schools and in their 2001 publishing of Sexual Harassment Guidance: Harassment of Students by School Employees, Other Students or Third Parties, they have indicated that not only should academic institutions ...
This isn’t entirely surprising. State standards for sex ed are hardly comprehensive. Even the most inclusive sexual health curriculums fail to adequately address female anatomy and sexual pleasure. These are the realities of sex ed standards, state-by-state. Graphics by Alissa Scheller. Source: Guttmacher Institute, April 2015
[2] [3] [4] The CDC said in 2007, 35% of US high school students were currently sexually active and 47.8% of US high school students reported having had sexual intercourse. [5] In 2017, the percentage sexually active was down to 28.7%, and the percentage who had ever had intercourse was 39.5%. [4]