Emerging Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy (Summary)

By D. Kirby. 2001

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Socialization Influences on Early Adolescents' Cognitive Susceptibility and Transition to Sexual Intercourse (2008, background): “Social development interventions aim to improve adolescents’ connections to schools, families, and other conventional socialization agents (Hawkins, Catalano, Kosterman, Abbott, & Hill, 1999; Kirby, 2001 ).”
Understanding the Impact of Poverty on Critical Events in Emerging Adulthood (2010, background): “Adolescent mothers have higher high school dropout rates (Corcoran & Adams, 1997; Kirby, 2001), and it is well documented that children of teen parents face greater difficulties than children born to older parents, including poorer health, cognitive development, and educational outcomes; more behavi”
Sexuality and relationships education: toward a social studies approach (2005, background): “Currently, many sexuality education programmes have mixed effects when evaluated on standard behavioural outcomes (Kirby, 2001; DiCenso et al., 2002; Speizer et al., 2003).”
Children, Adolescents, and the Media (2002, background): “At the same time, there are no data that abstinence-only sex education classes actually work, despite the Federal government’s providing $50 million a year funding for them.(133) Teenagers’ decision to become sexually active is a very complex one, rooted in family, religion, peers, and perhaps media”
The Trouble of Teen Sex: The construction of adolescent sexuality through school-based sexuality education (2003, background): “The apparent political popularity of abstinence-based programming, even in the absence of empirical evidence of its preventive efficacy (Kirby, 2001), and its inclusion in a conservative and moralistic package of ‘family values’ highlights an important obstacle confronting sexuality educators today.”
Sex and HIV education programs: their impact on sexual behaviors of young people throughout the world. (2007, background): “There have been many previous reviews of sex and HIV ducation programs’ impact on behavior, but they typically ave been limited to a particular geographical area such as he United States [7,8] or sub-Saharan Africa [9], or they are ow somewhat dated [7,10], or they do not analyze in depth he charact”
Challenges in the Evaluation and Implementation of School-Based Prevention and Intervention Programs on Sensitive Topics (2006, background): “Similarly, studies conducted by Kirby (2001, 2002) concluded that there is no evidence that abstinence-only programs either delay sex or reduce teen pregnancy.”
Chapter 4: Extracurricular and Other After-School Activities for Youth (2002, background): “The earlier of the two reviews, No Easy Answers (Kirby, 1997), included only peer-reviewed publications.”
Responding to parental objections to school sexuality education: a selection of 12 objections (2008, background): “( 1995 ), a 1997 UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) meta‐study of 22 international studies, and two studies in the United States by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy – one in 1997 called ‘No Easy Answers’ – and a second in 2001 by Kirby ( 2001 ) called ‘Emerging Answer”