Health and Advocacy Organizations Seek Removal of 4Parents.gov

Health and Advocacy Organizations Seek Removal of 4Parents.gov
1 April 2005

A contingent of advocacy groups have called on the federal government to take down its new Website, 4Parents.gov. The groups contend that it gives biased and inaccurate advice to parents and guardians on how to talk to their kids about sex. Among their concerns are the stress of abstinence programs and the claim that “sexual orientation as an ‘alternative lifestyle.’”

The organizations also expressed their dismay that the National Physicians Center for Family Resources (NPC), an organization that represents views that are far outside the values of mainstream Americans and the public health community, is the only organization credited in assisting DHHS with the Web site. NPC has ties to right-wing organizations like the California Family Council, Alabama Family Alliance, and Focus on the Family, and boasts of alliances with fringe medical associations and doctors such as the Alabama Physician Resource Council, the Physicians Consortium, and Dr. Laura Schlesinger. The organizations are also seeking information from the Secretary on how NPC was chosen and if it received taxpayer dollars for its assistance.


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