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American Social Hygeine Association
during a conference in Buffalo, New York, several organizations dedicated to fighting prostitution and venereal disease joined together to form the American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA). -
Goverments public health service
This program was to educate people about venereal dieseases. It was to also spread pamphlets and books to the people for further understanding -
Sexual education curricula
Schools have begun implementing more sexual education classses in schools than in earlier years -
American School Association
the American School Health Association launched a nationwide program in family life education -
The John Birch Society
The first wave of organized opposition, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, started attacks aimed at any form of sex ed in school. They saw it as a "communist plot" -
1964 SIECUS was founded
Dr. Mary Caulderon, medical director for
Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
founded the Sexuality Information and Education
Council of the United States out of her
concern that young people and adults lacked
accurate information about sex, sexuality, and
sexual health -
National Family Planning Service and Population Research Act
This act was to provide married women with information to and about contraception and also gave information to teenagers. -
U.S. commision on Population growth and the American Future
this strongly recommended that schools and teachers are to be trained in sexual education and teacher training plans be implemented -
Landmark Ruling
Supreme Court legalized abortion -
Adolescent Family Life Act
President Regan passed a program designed to prevent teenage pregnancy by encouraging "chastity and self-discipline" among teenagers -
Education in school enhanced
sexuality education was taught within the context of more comprehensive family life education programs or human growth and development courses -
C. Everett Koop
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report calling for comprehensive AIDS and sexuality education in public schools, beginning as early as the third grade. -
Welfare Reform Act
congress passed legislation, a national policy for sexuality education and appropriated 250 million dollars over five years to implement abstinence-until-marriage programs in schools -
Abstinence
Before 1998, 10 states required that sexuality education programs teach abstinence and did not require the inclusion of information about contraception. -
Absitnence program
Congress allowed Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program, to expire on June 30, 2009 -
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010
$110 million for the President’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI) -
abstinence only until marriage program
March 2010 the abstinence only until marriage program was resurrected as part of the health care reform package, which allocated $50 million a year in mandatory funding for five years -
Sex Education Today
22 states and the District of Columbia require public schools teach sex education -
HIV/AIDS
33 states and the District of Columbia require students receive instruction about HIV/AIDS.
