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September 2006, Vol 96, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1561
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.094151

IMAGES OF HEALTH

Images Against Teen Pregnancy

Robert Sember, Aleisha Kropf and Diane di Mauro, PhD

Robert Sember and Diane di Mauro are with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Aleisha Kropf is with Kropf Design, Bloomington, Ind.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Aleisha Kropf, Kropf Design, 3502 N Valleyview Dr, Bloomington, IN 47404 (e-mail: slappy@insightbb.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON’S 1996 welfare reform legislation, the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Act, included an initial allocation of $50 million to fund abstinence-until-marriage education programs in the nation’s public schools. This provision was a triumph for social conservatives who had spent 3 decades campaigning to have schools teach sexuality from an exclusively conservative moral vantage point, if at all. Since passage of the bill, every state except California has adopted abstinence-only curricula.

Also in 1996, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy was founded, with the mission "to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing teen . . . [Full Text]






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