Interesting fact:
State with the highest teen pregnancy rate: Mississippi
Amount of sex education I received in 13 years of public school in Mississippi: none, because sex education is not legal
cause and effect? Could be other factors. High unemployment rate, higher than average incidence of single-parent households, and poverty may figure into this as well. DC may be even higher. On the other hand, neighboring Louisiana and Alabama aren't nearly so high, but they also have high incidences of poverty and unemployment. I saw a table that put Nevada, Arizona, and Mississippi in the top three places. It'd be interesting to look at sex ed in NV and AZ.
also, ABC seems to have taken Obama out of context. I dug around on a few news sites and found that he was answering a specific set of questions from a (rather friendly) Planned Parenthood audience. He was suggesting that the Oregon model, which includes teaching young children in grades K-3 the proper anatomical names of body parts and bodily fluids, specifically in order to have them avoid being mistreated by adults. Let's face it: if a five-year-old has cum on his fingers, it's probably not his own. I'm not sure, as a parent, how I'd handle the situation, but I'd rather not have to deal with it at all. Maybe Oregon is on to something. "Children, that's a penis. It gets longer when it becomes erect. If you stroke it rapidly it will ejaculate. One day you'll discover the joys of it all, but for now you should probably only be using yours for pissing. And you really shouldn't be rubbing anyone else's. At least not till you're about 14 and in an exclusive New England boys boarding school." Honestly, it all sounds reasonable to me. There are lots of freaks out there.
