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Originally posted by Rio_Kohitsuji
Back in high school I volunteered (well, actually forced volunteerism..my sister was the head of the program) for Drug & Abstinence Education Program and I believe that helped out a lot of teens in the county area. My sister gave the kids (7th grade-12th) some very graphic pictures of diseases and etc along with bringing in teen moms to talk about their now present situation. I was told that the teen pregnancy rate dropped 30% that year. However, due to lack of funding, they had to drop the program. Guess what...the rate has risen back up. *sighs*
I now work with 5th-12th grade girls now over the summer for a local school. When I was working with them in small groups, my my lord, the questions came!! Their parents and teachers refused to talk to them about anything, they found out their info on the "bus". I was told by parents that if they asked that I should tell them.  But, I'm honest and tell them the truth about pregnancy and sex. My best advice that I told the girls was to wait til after you were 18 and your body was ready for it. Most of them thought that just because you have a few hairs down there you were all ready to go up, down, and all around!
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Hey Rio, it's good that you were able to discuss these things but the problem is today (I think you live in Canada ?) but in the US you are so limited in what you can even teach and talk to kids about in schools if you are a teacher. As a Social Worker, I just actually decided not to go on an interview with a particular agency because it is Catholic and I didn't agree with the mission statement. You have kids coming to you as the Social Worker who are pregnant and you are not allowed to talk about options with them. Even before they get in this situation you can't discuss birth control. It's really annoying. People constantly complain about teens today (especially parents) but when you can actually put preventative services in place to address these issues before a problem comes about, no one wants to back you on it. I think too many parents out there have the attitude that "my child would never do that." Well you know what, I am sure my parents still feel the same way about me and I've made a lot of choices that I wish I did differently. Oh well, this is always going to be one of those subjects that is debateable.