According to a major study of the effectiveness of sex-education programs for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and a new review for the Centers for Disease Control of all published research on school-based education programs, 'more accurate (sexual) knowledge does not have a measurable impact on sexual behavior.'

New Jersey has school-based sex education. In 1980, 67.6 percent of teenage births were to unmarried mothers. Eleven years later, the figure was 84 percent.

Sex education is not an academic discipline, based on solid research. What evidence exists that school sex education works? There is no evidence that it can, there is no evidence that it has.

Sex Education with parents teaching their kids the difference between right and wrong is most effective, best method.

SEX EDUCATION UPDATE:

About 5,000 schools are using a new teaching aid to steer teenage girls away from pregnancy. It's a high-tech 'infant simulator' --- in plain language, a doll --- named 'Baby, Think It Over.'

Girls take the $250 baby doll home for a weekend of 'love and nurturing.' The infant simulator is programmed to occasionally cry to signal that it needs feeding, a diaper change, or a bath. By Monday, most girls can't wait to give 'Baby, Think It Over' back, move on to other subjects.