National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy: Bristol Palin speaks out

I agree, unfortunately as Bristol herself said on another interview, 'abstinence is the best idea but it's not realistic' and I hate to say I agree with her.

Hum, Is it realistic though? Dogmas such as the Church preaches are not realistic nor in balance with the Human Biological clock.

In many countries still today and so it was in Western Countries as well until WWII, the majority of the World teens where married and pregnant because Biologically they where ready. The growing up always comes afterwords with the responsibilities given not before.

What changed in our society or rather in the Western Society is the fact that life expectancy went way up and that wealth and materialism took the for front to human biological realities, last but not least came the invention of contraceptive that changed our whole society and its mode of life and those contraceptive hormones now pollute our rivers and environment and come back to hunt us even to the point of threatening the human existence and ability to procreate along with other pollutants, for many all ready a reality and for our society and ever growing thread.

We all want the best for our children, however we need to be realistic with our approach and we can not act self fish here either and have to conceder the wider implications such as the environment and humanity as a whole.

This is a good post Amy and one that needs some serious debate.

Actually, Italians have a lot of teen pregnancies, but they have a lot of abortions. I suppose I could look up the stats, but the impression among Italians and ex-pats that the lack of welfare for teens who are pregnant in Italy, that is, having to depend on your family and not getting money from the state for your kid was a big motivation for getting the abortions.

Now, as far as teenage education about sex goes, exactly where are the school systems that teach nothing?

I have never been in a junior high in the LA area or in other cities that didn't have some kind of education for teens about sex.

Beyond that, I have in-laws who were role models to their kids and who pumped them full of every sort of information needed to prevent pregnancy, yet their kids and grandkids got pregnant.

This was a source of great irritation to them. One of them was really a very intelligent young lady, to boot.

But, it didn't work. I will argue that much of this is about what the peers see as acceptable. And what I have also noticed is that the depressed young women with less sense of an optimistic future are the ones who get pregnant.

They are just responding to an urge to have children and a lack of males willing to commit to being married.