While many of the controversies
SIECUS tracked this year ended in greater restrictions on what young people will learn in school, Ciardullo reminds us that advocates and activists across the country are working diligently to protect and promote comprehensive sexuality education and that in many communities they are succeeding.
As the global school board for the UN, UNESCO was a big sponsor of
SIECUS. However, the agenda is bigger.
The primary goal of sexuality education is to promote adult sexual health (
SIECUS, 1999).
Calderone and
SIECUS succeeded by the mid-1960s in encouraging many school boards to introduce sexuality education, though the content of the programs was, to say the least, uneven.
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SIECUS fact sheet #3 on comprehensive sexuality education: sexuality education and the schools: Issues and answers.
The primary goal of
SIECUS had been described by David R.
Haffner is the president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United Slates (
SIECUS)
National organizations that supported sex education, like
SIECUS and Planned Parenthood, found themselves on the defensive, rapidly developing workshops and materials on dealing with the opposition.
Such an approach seeks to help young people understand sexuality as integral to their identity and enables them to make responsible lifelong decisions (
SIECUS 1991).
SIECUS invites you to explore both reports, which can be found on the
SIECUS website at www.
For most
SIECUS Reports we pick a very specific topic and examine it closely.
Following the report's release and the ABC appearance,
SIECUS coordinated a sign-on letter to Sen.