Public battles over what schools can teach about sex, identity and relationships, often framed around "parental rights," have become more intense in recent years. Behind the loud debate lies a quiet ...

New research shows that most states are still requiring kids to be taught abstinence, while only a minority of states require medically accurate lessons. Reading time 3 minutes New research appears to ...

Underreported this summer: HHS slashed 53 sex ed grants worth $67 million, prioritizing abstinence and marriage over programs ...

Ohio, one of a handful of states without comprehensive sex education taught in schools, has a higher teen birth rate than the national average. The national birth rate for females 15-19 years old was ...

In this digital age, kids are surrounded by messages about gender and sexuality. But are parents creating the space for conversation and understanding? Health educator Shafia Zaloom has a new book, ...

Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of Maryland parents who sued their school district when it wouldn’t excuse their children from lessons about homosexuality or gender ...

For Valerie Cumming, sex education has become not just about giving students information but helping them process the “info dump” of misleading, bizarre, or outright dangerous material they’re ...

Sixth form students at The Duston School near Northampton are taught about relationships and sex education, but that is not always the case for this age group Relationship and sex education (RSE) ...

According to her, abortion wasn't real, and she showed us wildly inaccurate models of babies' growth stages. The models ...

An appropriate understanding of sex and healthy sexual relationships would have helped Kareena MacGregor understand that she did have sex (“Hear My Plea,” Feb. 19, City Weekly). An appropriate ...

In 2011, Mississippi law required public schools to teach either abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex education. Despite a significant drop in teen pregnancies since 2011, Mississippi still has the ...