Bill's Blog of Psychology

It's much easier to post news stories and things I read about to a blog, rather than post to my webpage or BlackBoard. This blog contains posts of interest to students from all of my classes.

Monday, August 27, 2007

New study finds problems with Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs

A Congressional inquiry released in December of 2004 found that over 80% of the abstinence-only-until-marriage curricula used by over two-thirds of federal grantees in 2003, contain false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health," said Bill Smith, vice president for public policy at the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS). "It is unacceptable that the federal government continues to dump millions of taxpayer dollars into abstinence-only-until-marriage programs that contain false and misleading information, censor critical sexual health information, and contain scientific errors," Smith continued.
Posted by Dr William Ashton at 6:30 PM
Labels: gender, interpersonal, research-methods, science-politics, social, women

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2009 (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2008 (98)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (17)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (9)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (19)
    • ►  February (12)
    • ►  January (11)
  • ▼  2007 (164)
    • ►  December (20)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (19)
    • ▼  August (44)
      • The Simpsons on being a grad student
      • At I.B.M., a Vacation Anytime, or Maybe None
      • Borrowing the Tricks of TV News to Set a Show Apart
      • Lobes of Steel
      • To Reap Psychotherapy’s Benefits, Get a Good Fit
      • Calisthenics for the Older Mind, on the Home Computer
      • why go to college?
      • Facebook labelled a $5b waste of time
      • Behaviorism going to the dogs
      • Depression is 'over-diagnosed'
      • Real Behaviors in Virtual Reality?
      • Cosmopolitan magazine: Gray Rape
      • New study finds problems with Abstinence-Only-Unti...
      • Sexual Assault in the Military
      • Police Families prone to violence
      • 1 in 5 high school girls victimized by dates
      • Feminine guys better for long-term love
      • Winter Travel Grants
      • More on CUNY standards
      • Now, the Clicking Is to Watch the Ads, Not Skip Them
      • Study Suggests That a Need for Physical Perfection...
      • The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns o...
      • Response to Crain's op-ed
      • Raising Standards at CUNY?
      • The eight types of graduate student
      • How long will you live?
      • Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller
      • Several articles in the Sun about an Arabic Public...
      • Social Influence in the news
      • Seeking 'thinspiration'
      • Vacation, All I Never Wanted
      • Family-Leave Values
      • Gender differences on the job: asking for more
      • Milgram Mania!!!
      • Consumed and more
      • Milgram's 37
      • How I came to love the veil
      • Policing Terrorism
      • An Experiment: When the Only Familiar Sight Is a U...
      • Happy Birthday, Cognitive Dissonance
      • ****** NY Times article on the subconscious!!!! ****
      • I/O for lunatics
      • A Baby-Proof Method Tracks Just Where Little Ones ...
      • Availability
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (10)
    • ►  May (19)
    • ►  April (17)
    • ►  March (7)

About Me

My photo
Dr William Ashton
View my complete profile

Labels

  • advertising
  • anomalous experience
  • anti-depressants
  • AUC
  • availability-heuristic
  • Black-People
  • brain
  • business
  • cartoons
  • CUNY
  • defense-mechanisms
  • demographics
  • depression
  • discrimination
  • employment
  • ethics
  • evolutionary-psych
  • forensic
  • gender
  • humor grad-school
  • interpersonal
  • IO
  • IVs-Dvs
  • Jung
  • library research
  • men
  • Muslim-Americans
  • no-space
  • OB
  • online behavior
  • pesudoscience
  • politics
  • psychinfo
  • racism
  • research-methods
  • scholarship
  • Scholarships and Jobs
  • science
  • science-politics
  • sexual-assault
  • social
  • social rape-myth
  • social-cognition
  • Social-Influcence
  • stigma
  • summer reading
  • systems-theory
  • testing
  • the basics
  • tsunami
  • women
  • York