Better late than never?

[pegkerr]

Found via broadsheet: In Canton, Ohio, a school board decided to expand sex education to allow for discussion on contraception after realizing that 13 percent of one high school's female students were pregnant. Yeah, ya think? That's 65 of the 490 female students becoming pregnant within a year.

Upon misia's recommendation, I just got a copy of Esther Drill's Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a gURL for Miss Fiona. And you can bet I'll be sure to have her read it, and I'll answer any questions she might have.

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[blpurdom.livejournal.com]

I simply do not understand how this is still happening in this day and age. When I was in school there was a guy who got a different girl pregnant each year he was in high school. He graduated with FOUR children by four different girls. (They were all friends, too, so you'd think they'd have known that he was useless when it came to birth control.) That was twenty-four years ago! Why is this still an issue? Well, I know why it's an issue, it's the religious conservatives who get bees in their bonnets every time someone suggests that actually explaining how to prevent pregnancy might be a good thing, because that supposedly leads to the kids having sex. :headdesk:

If you can point out to me one thing that DOESN'T lead to teenagers having sex I'd like to see it. ;) Which is why they need to know how not to get unintentionally pregnant! If the folks in charge of the schools just ASSUME that the kids ARE doing it like bunnies and make sure contraception is readily available most of the problems would be solved. (One of the problems is still that there are guys who think they're too "manly" to wear condoms, so there's a PR campaign waiting to happen that would definitely make many a church deacon faint. Ha!)