This is an amazing and depressing statistic. There are 800 girls at Chicago’s Paul Robeson High School. Out of 800 girls, 115 are now pregnant or recently had children.
Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow responds with perhaps the most unassailable observation: “It can be a lot of things that are happening in the home or not happening in the home, if you will.” Hard to argue with that.
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Personally, I think a few graphic videos of a woman in labor being shown in a sex ed class would make many girls rethink having sex so casually.
So much for abstinence only sex ed.
rafflaw writes: At age 15 I was only able to ask someone to pass the french fries. The only explicit sexual things were in my dreams! A different world and different environment.
which was exactly my point. fifteen year olds may have bodies that do adult things but their brains are far from being fully developed and their basic insecurities make them easy targets for emotional manipulation.
plus they are shy about such things, at least about putting them into words.
sex talk, clinical talk, is embarrassing. asking for a partner to do something is anathema.
the world is not that different for them.
GW Mom,
At age 15 I was only able to ask someone to pass the french fries. The only explicit sexual things were in my dreams! A different world and different environment.