Wade Horn

Wade F. Horn is an American psychologist who received his PhD from Southern Illinois University in 1981.

He served as President George W. Bush's Assistant Secretary for Children and Families from 2001 to 2007, overseeing the Administration for Children and Families, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, before resigning on April 1, 2007.

He has also served as president of the National Fatherhood Initiative and was an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University.

Horn has been criticized by Planned Parenthood and other sexual health education organizations for his advocacy of abstinence programs.

Under Horn's administration, these programs are believed to have contained misrepresentations regarding contraceptives, HIV and pregnancy.