). This approach takes many forms,
             sometimes as a course in itself, sometimes as a strategy in sex education classes,
             sometimes as a unit in civics or social sciences--it has set the tone for modern moral
             education in public and even private schools. "The shift from character education to
             the decision-making model was begun with the best of intentions. The new approach
             was meant to help students to think more independently and critically about values"
             (Kilpatrick 1993). Followers of this approach claimed that a young person would be
             more committed to self-discovered values than to ones that were simply handed down
             by adults. That was the hope, but the actual effect of the shift has been quite
             different. For students, it has meant confusion about moral values: learning to question
             values they have scarcely acquired, unlearning values taught at home, and concluding
             that questions of right and wrong are always changing with the influence of society.
             We live in a sexual world, but Americans have been slow to fully acknowledge its
             enormous impact. Among those interviewed in the Janus Report who were 18 to 26
             years old, 21% of the men and 15% of the women had had sexual intercourse by age
             14; a small percentage of them had had their first intercourse before age 10. "It ought
             to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people." (Noonan 1999) This
             statement accurately portrays moral education today. "The Day America Told the
             Truth," a 1990 survey of American beliefs and values contains this scene from a
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