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Originally posted by Not Bob
I'm not even talking about birth control. Simple stuff. Men and women. Women have eggs, men have sperm. The two mix when you have sex. This is how babies are born, so sex equals possible pregnancy. And diseases, some of which are not curable.
My kid knows this stuff. But her friends might not. And not only do I not want kids raising kids, I don't want them to have abortions. I don't want to pay for their ignorance in AFDC or in all of the other social problems caused by babies born to single teen parents.
But we can't explain this in the schools here.
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Back in high school, I was on the newspaper staff and interviewed a dozen or so teen mothers for an article on teen pregnancy.
Of the girls I talked to, most claimed to have believed some story or another about why they couldn't get pregnant ("can't on your first time", "I'll pull out before," etc.). But most disturbing was the 15 year old who (it appeared to me) genuinely did not understand at the time of her baby's conception that she was in fact have "sex." She was, admittedly, not the brightest bulb in the drawer, but she had also never been explained the basic functioning of the human body. She knew what she was doing with her boyfriend was "bad" but not that it was going to lead to her having a baby. My school system, at the time, had basic sex ed, but allowed parents to opt their kids out, which her parents had. I understand from my mother that sex ed was recently taken out completely.
I'll agree to take sex ed out of schools when the parents can prove they've adequately instructed their children on such basic matters of living.
The story, detailing the life of a 12 year old mother and a 17 year old mother each trying to balance baby and school, with a sidebar on birth control methods, was killed by the principal. Why my crazy journalism teacher thought the school would let me run it is another story, but whatever.
