It’s a continuous battle. Jackson County ranks high among Georgia counties and well above the United States in its percentage of births to teenage girls. Babies born to teenage mothers tend to repeat the cycle, and generation after generation of babies born into poverty and unstable homes results.
Information is key to reducing teen pregnancy
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cmc
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08/19/08, 11:31 AM
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PLease parent do not just preach abstnence to your children. While all of us would liek to think that our kids will have sex before they are married, they will and they are. we need to tell our children that while we understand they are nrevous or embarrassed about talking to us about sex we also need to be a parent and provide them the knowledge of doing it safly. we are not just talking about teen pregnancy we are also talking about HIV, AIDS, and all the other veneral diseases that come along with haveing unprotected sex. I would much rather my daughter or son tell me they were haveing a baby then to tell me they had HIV. Each parent must protect their own child. That starts at home. Education is key to ending not only teen pregnancy but also the fight on AIDS.
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Anonymous
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08/19/08, 03:09 PM
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This is pretty much the same as telling your kids not to do drugs, but knowing that since they will probably do drugs anyway, you offer to buy them and let them smoke up at home. I'm sure you would rather them get high at home than get arrested, right? The kids might be "nrevous" about talking about it, but they would probably "liek" doing it "safly" better than "abstnence". Why should anyone have to accept responsiblity for their actions anyway?
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Anonymous
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08/20/08, 09:18 PM
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Looking at some of the creative spelling, it seems the first poster may have been practing a few of these safety methods while posting the comment.
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Anonymous
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08/22/08, 11:07 AM
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No, it's not at all the same. Your child will eventually have sex at some point in his or her life. Your child will not necessarily eventually do drugs. Having sex is legal, within certain age restrictions. Doing drugs is not. Teenagers make lots of poor decisions; that's why they don't have the same rights as adults. Sometimes they'll decide to have sex when they shouldn't. If they are going to make that decision/mistake, they should know how to avoid compounding the mistake by risking an STD or an unwanted pregnancy. Who exactly do you think is accepting responsibility here? Because I think a lot of it will probably fall to the child who's stuck with a teenager for a parent.
