BMJ 2005;331:129 (16 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7509.129-c
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Teenagers need sex education, not just abstinence advice
Janice Hopkins Tanne
New York
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In revised guidelines, the American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that teenagers receive counselling to postpone sexual activity and also information about and access to contraception, including over the counter emergency contraception without a prescription ( Pediatrics 2005;115: 281-6[CrossRef]). The academy's 60 000 members provide primary care to infants, children, and teenagers up to the age of 18 or 21.
Jonathan Klein, chairman of the committee that drew up the guidelines, told the BMJ that the new report was a routine update to consider newer options such as emergency contraception, not a reaction to the Bush administration's programmes promoting abstinence until marriage and monogamy thereafter. The report says that teenage pregnancy poses medical and psychosocial complications, and that children of very young mothers do not do as well as those of adult women.
Although sexual activity and teen pregnancy rates have declined, they remain
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