President Obama: Say "NO" to Abstinence-Only Programs
Over the past decade the federal government has allocated more than $1.3 billion for ineffective, dangerous abstinence-only programs that provide students with incomplete, medically inaccurate information. These programs focus solely on abstinence and provide little or no information about contraception.
To read more click hereIn order to make responsible and healthy decisions, young people need medically accurate, age-appropriate information about sex and sexuality.
President Obama has said that he supports comprehensive sex education programs that promote abstinence and provide information on contraception.
As President Obama finalizes the details of his fiscal year 2010 budget, join leading organizations such as The National Partnership for Women & Families by urging him to stop funding abstinence-only programs and direct our scarce public health resources to evidence-based, comprehensive sex education programs that actually work.
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April 07, 2009
Women and Girls to Be Focus of Buffett Son's Fund
Organizations serving women and girls will be the main beneficiaries of roughly $1-billion pledged by Warren Buffett to his son Peter’s NoVo Foundation, the Associated Press reports.
NoVo, in New York, has begun granting millions to charities that focus on female clients, promoting their educational and economic development and fighting domestic violence.
“It just was logical for us after we really thought about it,” said Jennifer Buffett, Peter Buffett’s wife. “If you empower adolescent girls who are the mother of every child yet to be born … they have so much more to offer their sons, their daughters in that next generation.”
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