A new study from the University of Pennsylvania that includes middle-schools students shows that that an abstinence-only class aimed at just over 600 African-American middle school students showed encouraging results. Only about a third of the students who participated in the weekend class started having sex within the next two years in comparison with over 40 percent of the students who took a “comprehensive sex-education class.”
The class included a few “follow-up” components that focused o...