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AndyA

(16,993 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 02:16 PM Apr 2013

Rate of teen births higher in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY - A new report shows that more than one in five births to teen mothers in Oklahoma between ages 15 and 19 is a second birth.


http://www.newson6.com/story/22087597/rate-of-repeat-teen-births-higher-in-oklahoma

So much for all that conservative value stuff. No sex education and/or only abstinence-only sex education simply isn't working. What's worse, the teens aren't learning anything from the first go round.
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Rate of teen births higher in Oklahoma (Original Post) AndyA Apr 2013 OP
You mean kids are going figure out how to have sex Drale Apr 2013 #1

Drale

(7,932 posts)
1. You mean kids are going figure out how to have sex
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 03:00 PM
Apr 2013

whether they get sex education or birth control or not? But how did they figure out the wing-wang goes in the who-ha? Surely their parents explained how if you have sex before marriage, your going straight to hell and your going to get the pregnant and give birth to a demon child? Whats that you say, sex is a natural part of life and kids don't need it explained to them to know they want to do it? NO BLASPHEMOUS!!!

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