What do you feel people or schools should do about teen pregnancy? Give out condoms? Or is that encouraging teens to have sex?

depents on if it is a wanted or unwanted pregnancy your asking about

That's just asking for water balloon mayhem

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Honestly we need to embrace the fact that teen age kids have sex. This is not the 40's any more. What I find funny is most European countries could care less if there are naked people on television or in commercials but frown upon violence. Where as in the US violence is horrible but the act of sex is un speakable. Education is key for any populace to thrive. We really need to focus on education outside of the text book as well, more so when our children spend a great deal of life in school. I am not advocating for a fish bowl full of condoms but a sex ed program that actually does some good. Also maybe give out some information about getting a hold of planned parenthood and things like that. But parents also need to acknowledge that there children are going to have sex. Parents are just as responsible for there children's education as a school.

Schools should stay out of it entirely - it's a matter for the parents and the teens' physician.

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"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

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Anyway, it's not encouraging kids to have sex. Kid's already want to have sex.

But I don't necesarilly think a sex ed program will cut it. It's up to parents to talk to their kids about this stuff. America needs to be concentrating on the family more. Good family values are correlated with success.

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Good family values should help, but teenagers often don't act just as their parents try to teach them to act.
Curiosity and adolescent sex drive along with peer pressure will always get kids in trouble. It was that way when I was in school, but it wasn't talked about in public so much.
I fail to understand how so many kids seem ignorant about sex in this day of so much information availability.

As always, it's education. Too many kids live in single parent households, having to take care of their siblings, with no time to get a good education.

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it because the most general of sex ed, isnt talked about, all I know of sexs is generay what I found out myself, but the basig sex ed did help a little and it was funny as hell :p

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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