Recently, Advocates received a letter regarding Transitions and a perceived bias in regard to particularly abstinence-only sexuality education curricula. Advocates for Youth is a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve young people s ability to make responsible and healthy decisions about sexuality.
Transitions is a newsletter dedicated to the same mission.
In assessing the effectiveness of any sexuality education curricula, Advocates considers those evaluations which have been published in peer-reviewed journals that is, the evaluations have been reviewed by professionals in the field for accuracy and validity. Lack of proven effectiveness is one reason that Advocates for Youth and Transitions do not promote any of these curricula. Advocates for Youth and Transitions also have fundamental objections to most abstinence-only education curricula. Abstinence-only curricula provide no information about contraception, including condoms, for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy. The only exception is that they usually provide some information about failure rates, and this information is often inaccurate.