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It's Time to Stop Shaming Teen Mothers

As a doctor who practices adolescent medicine, I see the damage that’s done when we demonize pregnant young people instead of giving them the support they desperately need. ....

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King County sex ed evaluation costs $4.8 million; found program was ineffective

The U.S. government gave millions in federal grants to evaluate a popular comprehensive sex education curriculum developed by the county containing Seattle. While evaluators found that the program did not ....

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The Failure of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: Advocates of Evidence-Based Policymaking Ignore the Evidence

Policymakers frequently assume that when an intervention was found effective in one setting, the same results can be repeated elsewhere. However, the history of social programs is replete with examples of programs that, while effective in one location, simply failed to work elsewhere. The federal government has a poor record of replicating effective social programs. ....

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