Let’s Talk Sex Education

Vivian Ramirez Rodriguez

Public access to sex education is vital to teen and young adult safety and healthcare. Throughout the country, sex education mandates and curricula are based on local policies. Vivian researched and compared California’s public policies on sex education in schools to those in Texas. To enhance and vary the research, she also included an analysis from the Netherlands—a country with known pragmatic sex education system. As expected, the areas with earlier and medically-based sex education curricula have better results preventing not only teen pregnancy and abortions, but also childhood sexual abuse.

Check out Vivian’s one-pager here, and her presentation here!