Abstinence-Only Based Curricula in Public Schools

In 1981, when the US Congress passed the Youth Family Life Act (Denla, 2006) administered by the Adolescent Pregnancy Program Office (OAPP) based on President Reagan's anti-alcohol policy. The main purpose of this proposal is to maintain sexual relations before marriage (Weaver, 2005). AFLA is based on the approval and development of abstinence-based courses at public schools in the United States (Weaver, 2005).

But for those familiar with the actual curriculum of the school, the obvious consensus that supports abstinence seems to be misleading. Traditional abstinence class and abstinence class may have little in common. We conducted a quantitative analysis of nine traditional or genuine abstinence courses and nine comprehensive education / abstinence courses and courses to assess similarities and differences between the two major approaches to sex education.

Fear-based course? Loosely, the real abstinence course is "based on fear". Examining these courses shows that there is no basis for this statement. True abstinence and a comprehensive gender course provide compelling information about teenage pregnancies against true threats to sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and health and well-being of young people. The contents of these two courses are very similar in these topics, but the page content of the integrated sexual curriculum is more than twice the sexually transmitted disease threat compared to the actual forbidden curriculum. Therefore, a comprehensive sex education course can be said to be "based on fear" rather than a true abstinence course. In fact, "based on fear" is not a term that accurately describes all kinds of courses.

Analysis of the actual page content shows that there is no common point between the true abstinence course and the comprehensive sex / abstinence course. This analysis also clearly disagrees with the assertion that abstinence and the course emphasize abstinence. The average contents of the two courses are shown in Table 3 and Figure 1. The amount of page content allocated to abstinence topics varies greatly between two different types of courses. On average, the actual smoking-free course uses 53.7% of its content for smoking-related documents. In addition, these courses contain an average of 17.4% of content in the theme of health relations and marriage benefits - directly enhancing the theme of abstinence