A new study shows when teaching teenagers about sex education abstinence works better than showing them safe methods of contraception. According the study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 67 percent of the teens who received some form of abstinence-only education delayed having sex for two years, compared with 48 percent of teens who received no sex education.
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February 10th, 2010
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February 9th, 2010
Pride Minister Kevin Rudd says he'd personally like to see the legal drinking age lifted to 21.
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February 9th, 2010
Married British couples on modest incomes pay a third more in tax than their counterparts in other countries, a report reveals today.
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February 9th, 2010
Couples are to be offered a simple test to stop them passing on any of more than 100 genetic diseases to their children.
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February 9th, 2010
This week Debra Bell has written about her eldest son Will's descent into cannabis addiction and the terrible toll it took on her family.
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February 9th, 2010
The 'testosterone deficit' in the Church of England needed to be urgently addressed to attract more men into the pews, its synod has heard.
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February 9th, 2010
The Archbishop of Canterbury will fight threats of disintegration in the Church of England with what is expected to be a forceful intervention at the General Synod today.
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February 9th, 2010
Human rights watchdog suspects sexual exploitation of overseas women being wrongly treated as immigration issue.
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February 9th, 2010
Investigation will try to establish extent of problem, focussing on women brought into Scotland as sex workers.
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February 9th, 2010
Great Britain recently raised its terror alert to 'severe' following reports that al Qaeda was plotting new attacks.