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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[avengangle.livejournal.com]

What got me was that it mentioned at the end of the article that 104 of the 586 babies born in the last year at two hospitals were to mothers between the ages of 11 and 19.

Yes, that said 'eleven'.

Now, I went to a city high school in a city larger than Canton, in Ohio, even (Toledo) and at the most we had . . . um . . . 13 girls out of about 200 pregnant, which is about six and a half percent. That was our ridiculous year, though.

But then again . . . we taught contraception starting in eighth grade. They taught us how to use condoms when we were 13 and it was still embarrassing/funny/something to giggle about. We also had people come into our classroom who actually had AIDS and talked to us about how it screwed everything up. So. That might have helped our percentages some.

STILL. ELEVEN. Ouch.