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Beyond The Sex- Ed Wars: Addressing Disadvantaged Single Women’S Search For Community, Helen M. Alvare
Beyond The Sex- Ed Wars: Addressing Disadvantaged Single Women’S Search For Community, Helen M. Alvare
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Abstract: Beyond the Sex-Ed Wars
By Helen M. Alvaré
There is bi-partisan alarm over recent reports that our nation’s nonmarital birth rate has reached nearly 40%. Policymakers worry not only about fiscal effects, but also about the welfare of children reared in single-parent households and the fact that marriage and childbearing patterns are beginning to diverge sharply on the basis of race and socioeconomic status. Yet there is little new in recent proposals to address the phenomenon. Supporters of abstinence-only sex education, and of “comprehensive” sex-education, continue to trade accusations. Federal and state agencies promise to work harder but intend …