translation agency  Reuters New Media Study looks at impact of
sex education in US schools  February 10, 2012 Reuters NewMedia
- February 10, 2012  Feb 10 (Reuters) - States with more
comprehensive sex education programs had lower teen birth rates,
but the effect seemed to be due more to political, religious and
social differences in U.S. communities than the sex education
itself, according to a study.  Whether school sexual education
programs should include any guidance other than abstinence has
been for years the topic of political and cultural debate in
many parts of the United States.  "Although the teen birth rates
and teen pregnancy rates are dropping year after year ... we
still have disparities between states, and we have higher teen
birth and teen pregnancy rates when we're compared to other
industrialized countries," said Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, from
Washington University in St. Louis, who worked on the study.
She and her team compared school curricula for 24 states with
the birth rates of girls age