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Originally posted by winneythepooh7
...It is really scary to me especially because these are not your typical "inner city" or "poor" kids who Americans tend to stereotype as doing these behaviors...
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I think this comment right here is part of the problem. Too many people are holding on this stereotype that only poor, undeucated teens are the ones who are having sex and they are the ones that are getting pregnant and they are the ones that are geting STIs and that the affluent kids can do no wrong and they won't get into this kind of trouble. We need to move away from these stereotypes and see that kids of all backgrounds are having sex.
Kids get into all sorts of trouble and they really don't udnerstand the consequences of their actions. If the schools aren't going to teach them about safer sex then it's really up to the parents and maybe it's time somebody started educating the arents and tell them how important it is to talk about sex with their teens.
I had a very different experience though. I was taught about safer sex starting in grade 4. In Candada we don't have the abstinence only sex education (actually that's probably taught in the Catholic schools). even during Frosh week we still had sex education. All the freshmen were required to attend a workshop about safer sex.
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