What an incredibly silly idea! Or rather, what an incredibly silly way to title this idea. Awareness about the problem of teen pregnancy is one thing. Having one special day of prevention just gives me images of volunteers chasing around after teenage couples. Any sign of kissing and the Prevention Brigade will pounce! But only for that one day of course.
How about preventing teen pregnancy by giving kids real information about sexuality, health, and relationships (this only happens in some high schools, most are gagged by the federal abstinence rules)? What about having honest conversations with them about maturity and responsibility? What about making contraceptives, a wide variety of contraceptives, available to both boys and girls. The abstinence only programs are a complete joke (as that recent study showed). Teens WILL have sex (some anyway), Teens have always had sex. We have to deal with this issue realistically. We have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world, and it is due largely to the fact that we allow religious conservatives to set policy for everyone. I would like to propose National Get Religion out of Classrooms Day.
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Shouldn't every day be "get religion out of the classroom" day?
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