The State of Sex Education in the United States in 2018 (Infographic)
January 12, 2018 by Justin Lehmiller
Students’ experiences with sex education are anything but consistent in the United States. Consider this: less than half of the states even require that it be taught at all! Moreover, even in those states that mandate sex education, the information teachers provide doesn’t necessarily have to be useful and, at least in some states, it doesn’t have to be correct, either! The status of sex education in the US continues to be poor as we enter 2018, which is a large part of the reason why this country has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies and STIs in the industrialized world. Check out the infographic below for a closer look at just how incredibly variable sex education is across the nation.
Sadly, change is not on the horizon in the immediate future. Rather than improving sex education, the current administration has proposed changes to the federal budget that would actually make things even worse. Learn more about this here.
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Founder & Owner of Sex and PsychologyDr. Justin Lehmiller is a social psychologist and Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute. He runs the Sex and Psychology blog and podcast and is author of the popular book Tell Me What You Want. Dr. Lehmiller is an award-winning educator, and a prolific researcher who has published more than 50 academic works.
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