ion. The program distributed $50 million per year for five years into the states. Since that time funding for these programs has increased nearly 3000%.
             An eligible abstinence-only education program is one that:
             • has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, physiological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;
             • teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children;
             • teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;
             • teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;
             • teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;
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