How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy

Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy by gdwatson on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:44PM (#10792303)

Misinformed how? It's not as if abstinence-only education claims babies come by stork.

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Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy by mikeash on Friday December 25, 2015 @05:29PM (#10792558)

It often claims things like condoms being ineffective against STDs or all sorts of birth control having far greater failure rates than in reality.

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Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy by CaptSpify on Saturday December 26, 2015 @01:22AM (#10793473)

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.

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Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy by habitue on Friday December 25, 2015 @04:06PM (#10792347)

Misinformed because they don't inform the kids about birth control. It's a sin of omission

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