National PTA and Utah PTA Resolutions:
That Utah PTA seek and promote state curriculum objectives which teach behavioral strategies to help students remain abstinent or resume abstinence until marriage
Resolved, That Utah PTA educate its membership about current statistics, trends, and protective and risk factors of early sexual involvement;
Resolved, That Utah PTA encourage state and local public campaigns to create a social expectation of premarital abstinence; and be it further
Resolved, That Utah PTA encourage our state and national legislators to support funding of programs that provide resources for parents to assume their role as primary sex educators of their children;
Resolved, That Utah PTA support varied counseling approaches outside of school course work, with parental permission, for those students who need additional sustained support to delay sexual involvement or return to sexual abstinence;
Utah PTA Legislative Policy:
To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community, and place of worship.
Utah PTA Legislative Priorities:
5. Support measures to promote safe and healthy environments and behaviors for children to prevent suicide, sexual exploitation, and human trafficking,
