Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Three Barriers to Teen Pregnancy

Posted by Greg Hambrick on Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:19 AM

Girls at one Massachusetts high school are getting pregnant at an alarming rate (17 this year compared to two or three last year). Officials were first concerned that there was some sort of pregnancy pact, with each encouraging the others to get pregnant. Turns out not to be the case — these girls were just careless and uneducated.

While there are legal and social requirement that try to protect youngsters from becoming sexually active too early, here are our top three ways to know you're not ready:

1. You still have an allowance.

2. "Your song" is by either the Jonas Brothers or Miley Cyrus (that is what the kids are listening to these days, right?).

3. You've never put a condom on a banana.

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More barriers need to be in place. Physical and psychological. Make those kids watch Baby Borrowers and they will be traumatized by what these teens go through as 'parents.'

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Posted by Gary on June 25, 2008 at 6:33 PM
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