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27 Sep

Study finds sexual health education less effective after COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted multiple facets of education, including how middle school students engage with sexual health education. New research presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2025 National Conference & Exhibition in Denver examined how students’ knowledge and beliefs about sexual health differed before and after the pandemic.

18 May

The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans

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Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19. https://northdakotamonitor.com/2024/05/18/the-number-of-births-continues-to-fall-despite-abortion-bans/Only Tennessee and North Dakota had small increases in births from 2022 to 2023, according to a Stateline analysis of provisional federal data on births. In California, births dropped by 5%, or nearly 20,000, for the year. And as is the case in most other states, there will be repercussions now and later for schools and the workforce, said Hans Johnson, a senior fellow…