CONTAMINANTES - An Rx For Teen Sex: Doctors are joining the abstinence movement. Here's why they're now telling kids, "Just say no" [...]
Perhaps the most pressing question about Worth the Wait [a sex-education curriculum taught in 31 districts across the Texas] is the one that has dogged the abstinence movement from the start: Does it work? Though a major federal evaluation of 11 programs is due out early next year, no study has yet confirmed the merits of the just-say-no approach. But there are small signs that Worth the Wait is making a difference. A continuing evaluation that involves Texas A&M University professors found that from 1999 to 2001, frequency of sexual activity among seventh- and eighth-graders in the program dropped 4% and 2% respectively.