REAL Sex Education

Planned Parenthood is working with the federal and state governments to ensure access to real sex education programs that give young people the reliable, accurate information they need to make responsible decisions and stay healthy.

Protecting Teens with REAL Sex Education

The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the developed world.   In addition, while young people ages 15-25 in the United States make up only one quarter of the sexually active population, they contract about half of all the country's 19 million sexually transmitted infections and almost one-quarter of the estimated 56,300 new HIV infections. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than three million teen girls have a sexually transmitted infection. That's at least one in four. 

Teens need medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive information to help them both postpone sexual activity and protect themselves if they become sexually active. 

Did you know?

Nevada has the second highest teen pregnancy rate, the third highest teen abortion rate and the 8th highest teen birth rate (Guttmacher Institute). The communities of color are bearing the brunt of teen pregnancy in Nevada. The Latina teens have three times the rates of pregnancy of their Caucasian counterparts; the African American teens have twice the rates of pregnancy and the Asian population in Nevada has twice the rate compared to national average. Our teens deserve better.

Nevada taxpayers contributed $67 million associated with teen childbearing in 2004 (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancies). 

Good News!

President Obama's 2010 budget will end funding for ineffective abstinence-only programs and provide $178 million for evidence based sex education programs that prevent teen pregnancy.