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Advocates for Youth:
The Government Accountability Office called the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to task for failing to provide adequate oversight of the information disseminated through federal abstinence-only programs.
The GAO specifically stated that ACF, which supervises two multimillion dollar abstinence-only programs "does not review its grantees' education materials for scientific accuracy and does not require grantees of either program to review their own materials for scientific accuracy."
This newest revelation about ACF comes on the heels of last month's program announcement instructing states to refocus their abstinence-only programs to include unmarried adults up to the age of 29 and a GAO decision that under the Public Health Act "medically accurate information about condoms" must be included in abstinence-only programs.
In September 2005, Advocates for Youth and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States filed a legal challenge with ACF questioning the quality of information disseminated through abstinence-only programs.
"Clearly, the ACF needs to take some responsibility," added Wagoner.
Posted on December 7, 2006 07:19 PM
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