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PARTY ON, WADE. With Administration for Children and Families head Wade Horn's resignation effective yesterday, groups like the Abstinence Clearinghouse and the Family Research Council are sad to say goodbye.
�We would like to offer our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Horn,� said Leslee Unruh, Founder of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse. �He has spent his time proving himself a true friend of abstinence education, and has shown a real understanding of the importance of marriage and responsible fatherhood in particular.�Horn has indeed been cozy with hardline social conservatives. His achievements include:
- overseeing multi-million-dollar funding increases for abstinence-only education programs and crisis-pregnancy centers
- promoting abstinence-only programs for not just teens, but for adults, too
- running the National Fatherhood Initiative before he became a government employee, and then funding his organization with millions of federal dollars
- shunting federal dollars toward various other religious groups and right-wing organizations he is personally affiliated with, such as Marriage Savers
- deciding that low-income women need a husband more than they need job training, and funding "marriage promotion" programs with welfare dollars
- once arguing that Head Start programs should only admit children of married couples
