Teen pregnancies go up – who’s to blame?
My money is on the horrible movies and tv shows geered toward teens. Just a preview for an American Pie movie was enough to make me want to retch.
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
Teen pregnancies were up three percent in 2006, which is the latest reporting period available. Proponents of comprehensive sex education are blaming abstinence programs for the increase.
The figures come from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a strong opponent of abstinence education. But Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association reports that that organization is simply putting its own twist on old information as a way to gain more support.
“They’re just re-circulating data that we’ve known for months — but they’re putting their own spin on this to castigate abstinence education and put in a plug for the new teen pregnancy prevention funds, which is just another way of saying more money for contraceptive education,” she explains.
Guttmacher and others are actually placing the blame for the increase in pregnancies on the abstinence approach funded during the Bush administration, claiming that abstinence funding doubled from 2000 to 2003 to $120 million, and that by 2008 that amount reached $176 million. Huber points out, however, that abstinence education received only 25 percent of the funding earmarked for teen sex-education programs.
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My money is on parents who didn’t bother to talk to their kids about sex. If your a parent it’s your responsibility to talk to your kids about sex, and how not get an infection or pregnant if they decide to engage in it.