Huh?
liftshard said:
I wonder what the racial demographics of the pregnant girls are.
I don't know, but it's probably not much different than the breakdown at the state or national level - which do show distinctly different pregnancy rates per race. Of course, I'm sure you realize that this a result of different socio-economic conditions - rather than race, itself.
liftshard said:
Unfortunately, the State's values are shaped by extremist nutjob groups who lobby well. This situation is the brainchild of the feminist movement and the gay lobby.
Wow, I can't tell - Are you serious? What propaganda do you suscribe to that claims teen pregancy is the "brainchild" of either the feminist movement or the gay lobby? It's so much more convienent and less scary to simplify and externalize a problem than it is to accept the more complicated reality that causes it, huh?
Certainly, the NRA and 700 Club and whatnot don't have any say in the DEA's curriculum choices.
I really don't know: What solution do these organizations propose? Abstinence?
Kids don't use condoms for the same reason I don't use them. They SUCK.
Are you just making this stuff up to support your position or what? Show me one survey or study that cites lack of pleasure as the major reason for not using condoms among teens. Until you can, I will continue to believe what I have observed and what every survey I have seen has concluded: That not being prepared/having one and "I don't know" are the most common reason among teens. It is clearly not the case that the teens don't use condoms because they "suck".
Until all parents start raising their kids properly, a parent needs to accept the reality that many teens have sex (25% of girls by age 15, around 50% of girls by 17). If those teens, boys and girls, were taught to respect the wishes of their partner (70% of girls who had sex before 15, had it against their will), and if those teens, especially girls, were encouraged to respect their own body before everything else (even if it means a girl insisting that a condom be used), sex would be avoided when it was against their will and protection would be used at a higher rate. Too bad this sounds like something those "feminists" would be for.
If we want a society where everyone can be promiscuous, we have to have a "Brave New World" type situation where everyone is sterilized at birth.
This might have worked many decades ago, but not anymore since we have all those STDs to worry about.
Anyway, promiscuity is not even a root cause of teen pregnancy and is a different discussion altogether.