because they are often unprepared to engage in sexual activity in a safe manner. As the Youth Action Center, which advocates comprehensive sex education programs that include dissemination of condoms, argues, ô[Abstinence-only] school districts teach abstinence as studentsÆ only option before marriage and either omit or distort any information about contraception and condoms,ö (Comprehensive, 2003, p. 2).
The lack of preparedness and education offered by abstinence-only sex education programs increases the chances that teens will become pregnant
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