Curricula that teach abstinence as the only morally correct option for unmarried people. These programs, funded under Title V of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, do not allow instructors to share information about the health benefits of condoms for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections or other methods of birth control for the prevention of unintended pregnancy. Government-funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs:

• teach only one set of values as morally correct
• use fear tactics
• often promote specific religious values
• teach that sexual expression before marriage is dangerous and has harmful physical, emotional, and social consequences
• only allow discussion of the negative consequences of premarital sex
• forbid medically accurate, positive, or normalising discussion about abortion, birth control, masturbation, safer sex, sexual behavior, sexual identity, and sexual orientation .
• discuss and often exaggerate the failure rates of condoms and other methods of birth control
• teach that carrying a pregnancy to term and keeping the baby or placing the baby for adoption is the only morally correct option for pregnant teens.