Lack of education is a big one I think. I read an article about a school in the midwest that didn't teach sex ed and just blaired out to the kids that abstatnince was the only way, and that school had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the area, possibly in the us (can't remember all the details). When the pregnant students were interviewed, most of them said they didn't use protection cause they didn't know how or where to get it. I took Sex Ed in High school, my mom didn't want me too, but I'm glad I did cause I wouldn't have learned half he stuff I learned! One of the most valualbe things they taught was the success rate of all the birth control methods, Condoms being the second best way after abstinence, Wanna know what my MOMS method was? "Oh no, use the pull out method! It worked for me for two years!" Yeah, that one rates the WORST on the birth control scale! Obvously the pull out method failed, cause here I am!

Family is a big one too, my MOM did play her part by scaring the hell out of me and warning me ALL THE TIME that if I had a child it would ruin my life! I was still a virgin and if my period was a day late, I was calling my best friend telling her I had to be pregnant! I was and am paranoid! I'm married now and still terrified to have children.

Anyways, sorry, off topic, I think schools definitly need to offer some sort of sexual eduacation, cause most teens get thier sex ed from their friends, who learned it from thier older siblings, or tv, and even if they are getting eduacated from thier parents, all parents have different methods and upbringings. So School should at least teach the basics and fundamentals of it all, that way all the teens are getting the basics, and thier all getting the same information. Its good for the boys to learn it also, cause the topic of getting pregnant is usually always left up to the girl cause it's her body. Wanna know a great movie to watch regarding this topic? JUNO! best, funniest and very true about teen pregnancy.

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