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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Of course, the central thing behind this is parenting...It shouldnt be up to our schools to teach kids how to safely have sex.
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But if so many of our parents are dropping the ball more through neglect than a purposeful admission, it suddenly falls to society to mitigate the damage of those parents' irresponsible acts -- that damage being more kids with (probably) more irresponsible parents.
The the cost of teenage parents to our social services would dwarf any sort of reasonable preventative measures to keep that from occuring. Abstinence only programs have not been linked to any decreases in the number of unplanned teenage pregancies. However, several studies (do a search on google scholar) have linked these abstinence only programs to increased teenage pregancy rates.
Sometimes, it pays for the government to be a little paternalistic for those who can't/won't help themselves. For the rest of us, there's private school.