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As a college educated parent, and one who has daily contact with youth, and one who reads a lot of conservative and liberal stuff:
I think that sex among our teenagers is out of control.
Teenagers are not able to handle a marriage, a baby, a job, and school - and teenage sex should be discouraged. Early marriage and parenthood leads to broken familes and poverty.
I feel that lots of education about sex for teens is good - perhaps informed kids will use birth control and condoms.
Regarding the study quoted in the article, I am leary of such studies - usually the author's or the sponsor's viewpoint determines the outcome. Sure, they can find errors and falsehoods among the abstinence literature, but they can find errors on the other side too.
In Georgia, about one-third of the births are to unmarried mothers, and among minorities about 2/3s of the births are to single mothers. God knows how many more are aborted.
I don't know what point Ellen Goodman is trying to make - connecting teen sex with old-age lust. I do know that teenage unprotected sex produces fatherless kids, condemned to poverty.
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