We teach our children to look both ways before crossing the street—not when they are in high school but when they learn to walk. But we don’t teach our youth about reproductive health (which does include the old-fashioned sex ed., and much, much more) soon enough or comprehensively enough. Look Both Ways aims to change that with free textbooks to high schools. (And, we teach abstinence too.)
Look Both Ways educates students, teachers, parents, guardians, and anyone who acts in that capacity to a young teen. We educate them about their reproductive health, which includes the many things affecting youth as they go through puberty and adolescence (not the same thing). Most people don’t realize that bullying, consent, eating disorders, drug abuse, even suicide, are brought on by the changes and outside influences bombarding our youth at this most vulnerable time in their lives. No class covers all this like reproductive health, and no curriculum or textbook covers it as comprehensively as that published by Look Both Ways. Providing free textbooks reduces one of the many barriers to a proper reproductive health education. And we can prove that a Look Both Ways curriculum pays for itself several times over.
