User:Legraf01/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Comprehensive Sex Education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article because Comprehensive Sexual Health is one of my passions and something that I have focused on during my time as an Education Policy and Government major here at William & Mary. There is a lot of negative stigma and controversy surrounding Comprehensive Sexual Health programs and the idea of it itself and I want to make sure that people are reading unbiased facts about Comprehensive Sex Education.

Evaluate the article
The first paragraph of the article is very concise and gets right to the point. It informs the readers why Comprehensive Sex Education is important and what it is designed to reduce (unwanted teenage pregnancies, STIs). I was pleased to see that they called it "sexually transmitted infections" instead of "sexually transmitted diseases" because the label "sexually transmitted diseases" is no longer deemed medically accurate. There is a typo in the "Inclusion of LGBT community" section where is states "As of 2022, five states require that heterosexuality be emphasized over heterosexuality." The second heterosexuality should be replaced with homosexuality. Currently, on the Talk page there are discussions regarding including more health disparities and changing "LGBT" to "LGBTQ+" in order to be more inclusion of gender identities and sexual orientations. The article is mostly neutral, highlighting numerous times that abstinence is the only form of contraception that prevents unwanted pregnancies and STIs 100% of the time, but also reminding viewers that there are many different forms of contraception if abstinence is not something they are looking to practice. In the "Benefits" section is it stated that "Studies have found that comprehensive sexuality education is more effective than receiving no instruction and/or those who receive abstinence-only instruction," but that is as detailed as the article goes into that. Numerous times the article states there is clear evidence, but does not explicitly state what that evidence is nor where they got it from. Additionally, he article does not go into detail regarding the different types of contraceptives. For example, it lists condoms 8 times through out the article, but does not state that there are internal and external condoms.