[AKA_Monet]

Don't "they" call the old folk funky chicken, the "7 year itch"? Just asking...

I am highly college educated, having 3 degrees. I do not have any children, therefore I am not a parent. But many in my family and friends have had children out of wedlock at teens.

Abstinence would be great if teenagers did not have any xboxes, nintendoes and other items that promote sex and violence... I sat and watched my husband play Halo and saw how the women were drawn in this "video game"... It would put Barbie to shame... And when the favorite Halloween costume is "pimps" and "ho's" and there is a "player's ball" at the local high school where the favorite dance is the "bump and grind", abstinence doesn't have a chance...

I think the professional thing to do is get kids to protect themselves as aggressively as possible like it was in the early to mid-1990s with HIV education... Yes, that means condoms in schools. Because, if I was a parent of a teenager, I would not be angry if they are gettin' it on, but to come home with HIV would break my heart... And then be a teen girl pregnant with HIV... Not good for society...

However, teens pregnancy rates are falling, whereas, young professional unmarried women pregnancy rates are beginning to fall...

Somewhere on GC, I posted a topic asking what is that difference between a teen becoming pregnant and a young professional unmarried woman becoming pregnant? The ability to get the impregnating father to pay child support? Still haven't gotten a clear answer...