Though it has already been established that none of the funds will be used for abstinence education, recipients of federal funding for healthy marriage initiatives are to be announced in the near future.
In announcing the funding opportunity, the Department of Health and Human Services defined teaching abstinence as an "unallowable activity." And according to Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA), "This is the very first time that there was a strict policy against providing any information on abstinence education."
But she points out that scientific studies show that teenage girls who are sexually active before marriage are twice as likely to divorce later in life. Huber decides the anti-abstinence Obama administration is showing its true colors.
"Certainly an administration that prides itself in being evidence-based is kind of tipping their hand that this might be an ideological agenda, rather than something in the best evidence-based benefit for young people," the NAEA executive director concludes.
Those who will be receiving funding, which is part of the bill that President Barack Obama signed late last year, should be announced within the next couple of weeks. But since the HHS announcement, House members have written and signed a letter that outlines their request to change the current policy so that abstinence education will be included.
Contact: Bob Kellogg
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