Newly revised federal guidelines have expanded the scope of the $50 million Title V abstinence education grant program to include unmarried adults up to age 29, USA Today reports (Jayson, USA Today, 10/31). The program, administered by HHS Administration for Children and Families, distributes funds to states based on a formula favoring states with more low-income children. The federal government provides $4 in abstinence education funds for every $3 spent by states, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports (Freking, AP/Houston Chronicle, 10/30). To receive Title V funds, states must adhere to requirements, including barring teachers from discussing contraception and requiring teachers to say that sex within marriage is "the expected standard of sexual activity" (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 10/27). According to Wade Horn, HHS assistant secretary for children and families, the revised guidelines for 2007 are aimed at people ages 19 to 29 because recent data show that more unmarried women in that age group are having children. "We wanted to remind states they could use these funds not only to target adolescents," Horn said. The revised guidelines stipulate that states applying for the grants are "to identify groups ... most likely to bear children out of wedlock, targeting adolescents and/or adults within the 12- through 29-year-old age range." President of Advocates for Youth James Wagoner said that ACF has "stepped over the line of common sense," adding, "To be preaching abstinence when 90% of [the age group] is having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It's an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health." According to ACF, grants for 2006 amounted to $50 million, and a similar amount for 2007 is expected. Last year, 46 states applied for the abstinence education funds, USA Today reports (USA Today, 10/31). California, Maine, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have rejected the grants (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 10/27).