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Dear Mr Pyne, I trust you, or your advisors, will give serious consideration to the medical evidence below and reconsider this decision to fund the so-called Safe Schools programme. The political [...]

It’s official: smoking in films influences teens. Newspapers around the nation on 11 June 2003 reported a new study—published online that day in The Lancet—which surveyed 3500 adolescents who had [...]

The number of teen abortions in Texas fell significantly after the state enacted a parental notification law, a new study has found. The study, by researchers at Baruch College at City University [...]

Dr Mary Anne Layden is Co-Director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania, USA. The following are extracts from her [...]

Almost 100 people attended a Sexual Integrity Forum that took place on 8-9 August 2005 at Parliament House, Canberra. The purpose of the Forum was to promote “quality relationships between men [...]

A survey of 1,792 young people aged 12-17 in the United States has found that adolescents who watch large amounts of television containing sexual content are twice as likely to begin engaging in [...]