Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by sokoloff on Friday December 25, 2015 @02:33PM
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I'm more concerned for the baby's prospects than the teens'. (Baby is utterly innocent.) The teen situation is also unfortunate, but was also of their own doing in almost every case.
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Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by swegg on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:05PM
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Being misinformed due to the 'abstinence only' sex-ed. I wouldn't blame it on the teen, but on the education system, or the teen's parents who can't be bothered to teach birds and bees.
Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by gdwatson on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:44PM
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Misinformed how? It's not as if abstinence-only education claims babies come by stork.
Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by mikeash on Friday December 25, 2015 @05:29PM
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It often claims things like condoms being ineffective against STDs or all sorts of birth control having far greater failure rates than in reality.
Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by CaptSpify on Saturday December 26, 2015 @01:22AM
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I was also taught: never carry a condom, because then you might be tempted to have sex. Instead of understanding that it's going to happen anyway, they teach that it shouldn't happen, so don't prepare for it.
Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by habitue on Friday December 25, 2015 @04:06PM
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Misinformed because they don't inform the kids about birth control. It's a sin of omission
Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by nommm-nommm on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:45PM
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Teens being denied access to proper and accurate sex education isn't their own doing.
Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by sokoloff on Friday December 25, 2015 @04:51PM
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I have significant shared frustration with that situation, but feel that even in those cases, the teens bear a non-zero amount of responsibility, which is larger than the baby.
Most teens can read and most have access to google.
Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
by pixl97 on Friday December 25, 2015 @11:43PM
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>Most teens can read and most have access to google.
I can read and I have access to google, and for some reason I'm not a rocket scientist or a nuclear physicist. There is a reason that in most cases we don't consider (at least below 18) teens adults. They make bad decisions. We also know from study that teens make a higher number of bad decisions when the adults and culture around them feed them bad information.
Google is almost useless for things like this, your family and culture affect you far more.