Sentences with phrase «year on abstinence»
The federal government spends $ 176 million a year on abstinence - only education, and millions more are spent every year in state and local matching grants.
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The Life organisation, which also promotes abstinence - based sexual education, is replacing the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which has been providing pregnancy counselling for 40 years, on the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV.
This year the federal government will spend $ 131 million on abstinence - only programs that do not include instruction on contraception or preventing sexually transmitted diseases.
Also, rigorous research accumulated over the past 20 years has consistently shown that abstinence - only programs do not have an overall impact on young people's age of first intercourse.
A nine - year, large - scale federally funded evaluation of the Title V program found no measurable impact on increasing abstinence or delaying sexual initiation among participating youth.
A 2007 study determined that including on - site 12 - step meetings during treatment predicted continuous abstinence for the post-treatment year.