I think our sex education programs are missing something. (emphasis mine)
In a survey of thousands of teenage mothers who had unintended pregnancies, about a third who didn‘t use birth control said the reason was they didn’t believe they could pregnant.
But other researchers have talked to teen moms who believed they couldn’t get pregnant the first time they had sex, didn’t think they could get pregnant at that time of the month or thought they were sterile.
Isn't the whole point of sex ed to teach kids about sex, the consequences and how to avoid those consequences? Apparently, some kids are missing the connection between sex and pregnancy.
About half of the girls in the survey said they were not using any birth control when they got pregnant. That’s higher than surveys of teens in general, which have found that fewer than 20 percent said they didn’t use contraception the last time they had sex.
If you read further in the article you'll see that availability wasn't a problem. These kids know about them, where to get them and how to use them but they aren't using them.
It all goes back to what I've been saying. If you don't want to get pregnant, don't have sex. It's as simple as that.
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