Looks like Abstinence not working in this Ohio school 13% pregnant

[LynneSin]

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Ohio High School Has 64 Pregnant Students

CANTON, Ohio (Sept. 1) - High school senior Monica Selby thought she would be busy this year planning for college, not preparing for the birth of her first child.

"I've been crying every day and every night. I keep on blaming myself for this," said the 18-year-old Selby, who is six months pregnant.

She cries about starting classes this week at Timken Senior High School with a bulging belly, about the emotions of planning an adoption, about becoming part of a statistic that has snagged the nation's attention: 64 of Timken's 490 female students - 13 percent - are pregnant.

The statistic at the school in the heart of this old steel city contrasts with a decade of declining teen pregnancy rates nationwide. But teen pregnancy experts say the problem is not exclusive to Timken High.

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Joanne Hinton, whose 16-year-old daughter, Raechel Hinton, is eight months pregnant, said she believes the school's abstinence-based sex education program isn't enough.

"It's time to take the blinders off and realize that these kids are having sex," she said. "Obviously, abstinence is not working. If we have to, just give them condoms."

[Waya]

1. That ain't the half of it....

...in our li'l hicktown, population 5000, the High School has hired a Social Worker whose sole purpose it is to educate and help the pregnant girls. The youngest pregnant girl last year was 13 (Middle School), the father of the baby was 11. Yep. ELEVEN.

[LynneSin]

2. This isn't an Ohio thing this is accross the country

you give this kids half-ass education on sex and this is what will happen

:cry:

[patrice]

3. Those abstinence pledges and rings translate to no vaginal sex,

Everything else is the coin of the realm in our highschools. I taught Psychology for 10 years and saw a lot of things happen.

So when kids are doing fellatio and sodomy, vaginal sex ends up happening too, and bingo, a baby comes into a culture that is so psycho about sex that the whole thing just keeps reproducing itself.

Even under the best of circumstances, there are *SERIOUS* consequences that entail from pre-mature parenting, especially for females.