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Expert: Age, Not Abstinence, May Be the Bigger Problem in Sex Education
September 11, 2017
LUBBOCK, Texas, Sept. 11 -- Texas Tech University issued the following news release:

Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, the C.R. Hutcheson Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies in the Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences.

While abstaining from sex is the only foolproof way to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, abstinence-only education programs often fail to prevent young people from engaging in sexual activity, according to a re . . .

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