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How Relationships Under Construction meets the Title V Definition for Abstinence Education
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Title V, Section 510 [Read it]
The Welfare Reform Act of 1996
A Definition of Sexual Abstinence Education educational or motivational
program which: | Ohio House Bill 189 [Read it]
Effective date: March 18, 1999 State Board of Education’s minimum
standards mandate that all course materials and instruction do the following: |
| A. |
Has as its exclusive purpose, teaching
the social, psychological and physical health gains to be realized by abstaining
from sexual activity.
| Requires that venereal disease education
emphasize abstinence from sexual activity as the only 100% effective protection
against unwanted pregnancy and transmission of the AIDS virus and other
sexually transmitted diseases. (1) | | B. |
Teaches abstinence from sexual activity
outside of marriage as the expected standard for all school-aged children.
| Stresses that students should abstain
from sexual activity until after marriage. (3) | | C. |
Teaches that abstinence from sexual
activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancies, sexually
transmitted diseases and other associated health problems.
| Teaches the potential physical,
psychological, emotional, and social side effects of participating in sexual
activity outside of marriage. (4) | | D. |
Teaches that a mutually faithful
monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard
of human sexual activity.
| Mandates the State Board of Education
to require course materials and instruction in venereal disease education
to cover certain topics pertaining to abstinence and sexual activity outside
of marriage. (2) | | E. |
Teaches that sexual activity outside
the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical
effects.
| Stresses that sexually transmitted
diseases are serious possible hazards of sexual activity. (6) | | F. |
Teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock
is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s
parents, and society.
| Teaches that conceiving children
out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, parents,
and society. (5) | |
G.
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Teaches young people how to reject
sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increase vulnerability to sexual
advances.
| | | H. |
H. Teaches the importance of attaining
self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.
| Advises students of laws pertaining
to financial responsibility of parents of children born out-of-wedlock.
(7)
Advises students of the circumstances in which it is illegal under Ohio
law to have sexual contact with a person under the age of 16. (8) |
Relationships Under Construction Topical Cross References by color. The Definition of Abstinence Matches are represented within the ( ).
 Decision Making/Choices (A-H) |
|  Laws/Financial Responsibility (A,B,D,F,H) |  Goals/Future Orientation (A-H) |  Alcohol/Tobacco/Drugs (G)
|  Teen Pregnancy/Fatherhood/ Anatomy (C,F) |  Definitions/Abstinence/Sexual Activity/ Renewed Abstinence/Refusal
Skills (A,B,C,G,H)
|  Relationships (A,D,F)
|  Emotional/Social / Psychological/ Depression/ Suicide (A,E,F)
|  Marriage/Monogamy/Divorce (B,D,E)
|  STDs (A,C,E)
|  Media/Culture (B,D,E) | |
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