By: Lauren Caton The Issue While the U.S. and California have made substantial progress in reducing rates of adolescent birth over the past twenty years, significant disparities in family planning access and reproductive health knowledge persist for youth in rural areas.  In fact, these youth are more likely to give birth during adolescence and less […]

By: Kathleen Morrison In the United States there are a few standard paths that public school sexual health education tends to follow: strict abstinence-only education, sex education that pushes for abstinence but mentions condoms, contraception, and STI prevention, and progressive sex education that attempts to teach about all manner of sexuality-related topics in a comprehensive […]