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Goals

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Adolescents; Contraceptive use; Control education; Health education; Sex education; Sexuality and birth

Definition

The goal of sex education is to reduce sexually transmitted infections (STI’s), HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancy among young people.

Introduction

The goal is to review research conducted on sex education in schools and to evaluate the goals of such programs from an evolutionary psychological perspective. This review aims to examine the effectiveness of sex education through a discussion of the environmental factors that influence adolescents’ sexual life trajectories. Furthermore, the review discusses implications of these trajectories and works to determine how best to align each strategy with individual adolescent behaviors.

The primary goal of sex education is to reduce STI’s, HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancies among young people. Sex education, in school, is divided by various approaches to prevent negative health outcomes for adolescents. Sex education...

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  1. Univeristy of California – Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Arash Assar & Rebeca Mireles-Rios

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  1. Arash Assar
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  1. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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  1. University of South Carolina - Beaufort, Bluffton, SC, USA

    Carey Fitzgerald

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Assar, A., Mireles-Rios, R. (2017). Goals. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2458-1

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