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

Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy by nommm-nommm on Friday December 25, 2015 @03:45PM (#10792307)

Teens being denied access to proper and accurate sex education isn't their own doing.

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Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy by sokoloff on Friday December 25, 2015 @04:51PM (#10792463)

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.

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Re:How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy by pixl97 on Friday December 25, 2015 @11:43PM (#10793293)

>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.

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