CDC offers guidelines for schools’ sex education topics

The federal Centers for Disease Control has identified 16 topics which it says should be included in sex education classes offered to high school students in the U.S. Fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach all 16.
The topics:
—Benefits of being sexually abstinent.
—How to access valid and reliable health information, products and services related to HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy.
—Influences of family, peers, media, te