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Old 01-19-2011, 06:39 PM
ASUADPi ASUADPi is offline
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We're not pulling the 'pregnancy pact' card this time, right? Because we all know that's bullshit, right?

Ok, just checking.
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Quite honestly I think it boils down to stupidity on all parties involved (schools with no sex education, parents and the teenagers themselves).
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Old 01-19-2011, 11:27 PM
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No.

Quite honestly I think it boils down to stupidity on all parties involved (schools with no sex education, parents and the teenagers themselves).
I agree. Yes access to the education would be helpful. But come on, I never had a single sex ed class ever (even our health classes didnt talk about sex) nor did i really get the talk from my parents until way after i was sexually active and i managed to comprehend that STDs and pregnancy were real life consequences to sex- not to mention making it out of high school baby-free.
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Old 01-19-2011, 11:53 PM
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They also only compare Memphis' teen pregnancy rate to that of the national average. How about comparing it to other cities with similar socioeconomic demographics? I'm willing to be that Detroit is way up there too, but Bloomfield Hills is very low (not because they don't get pregnant, but because it is taken care of).
Dee gets it.

Where's Kevin to throw his two cents in?
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Old 01-20-2011, 12:11 AM
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Dee gets it.

Where's Kevin to throw his two cents in?
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Old 01-20-2011, 12:13 AM
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It boggles my mind how many people I know in college who still think it's impossible to get pregnant during X time of the month (it seems they all have different ideas of which week in relation to their period is correct), that condoms always prevent pregnancy, that one or the other sex can't get a certain STD, that herpes/chlamydia/gonorrhea/HIV can't be transmitted if there are no symptoms, or that the morning after pill is an acceptable form of routine birth control.
At least no one said that they don't need condoms because the worst that'll happen is you'll get HIV which will turn into herpes and then you'll be okay.

<----still banging head after meeting naive teenager with over 20 partners

But I hear you. There were lots of girls in college who didn't know how to properly use a condom even though they were active. I learned how and have never had to do so. Go figure. :shrug:

This whole thing is just....sad. 180 kids didn't just not show up for sex ed. 180 kids weren't intimidated at the store or didn't have access to free condoms. 90 girls weren't raised without a father figure and now are looking for love in the wrong places. There are a plethora of reasons why this happened listed in this thread and, as weird as it sounds, it frustrates me that no one reason is the culprit because there are too any factors to make this "easily fixable." With numbers like these, I wish it was--that's a lot of kids who don't really get to be kids anymore and probably a lot of grandparents who aren't prepared either.

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Old 01-20-2011, 02:09 AM
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This whole thing is just....sad. 180 kids didn't just not show up for sex ed.
Hah, could be anywhere from 91-180.
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