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Help teens have sex without pregnancy
"If we are to lower the abortion rate among young women, we must accept that teenagers will have sex and offer them advice." This humble NowPublic author has been saying this for years. Newsflash: teenagers have sex! Another newsflash: teenagers aren't great at using... 
Sex education will help gay children
"As a gay child, and in common with many gay children, I was terrified for most of my school life. My earliest sexual encounters – which all occurred before the age of consent (21 at that time) – were unsafe... 
11 Year Old Roma Child Marries and Gives Birth in the Same Day
On October 22nd, in the Roma ghetto of Sliven, Bulgaria; blushing bride Kordeza Zhelyazkova and her proud husband, Jeliazko Dimitrov, snuck out in the middle of their wedding festivities.... 
Teen pregnancies on the rise for the first time in over a decade
"SOME blame demography, others the recession. It might have something to with gender roles, or the steady stream of mixed messages about being a teenage mum. Perhaps sexually transmitted infections are not the deterrent they once were."There is much debate about why teenage... UN Sex Education for All Ages
Coming out of a conference in Germany, is a disturbing sexual education plan for ages 5 - 18. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has released their ideas of school age sex education. This is disurbing. Here are a few...
Social institutions contribute to homosexual youth suicide
"Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit." Erik Erikson Social... 
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 18 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
1124 views | 107 recommendations | 35 comments
1124 views | 107 recommendations | 35 comments
Watch TV instead of having sex
"To mark World Population Day last Saturday, India’s health and family welfare minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, declared that every rural home in India should have a television. But this was no campaign for the masses’ right to infotainment. Rather, Azad sees the TV as a magic... 863 views | 13 recommendations | 6 comments
US teenagers need real sex education
I recently highlighted a guardian.co.uk piece which reported the failure of abstinence only programmes in America, and commented: "This piece argues that the rise in risky sexual behaviour among young people in the US is linked (ironically, of course) to George Bush's... 1318 views | 22 recommendations | 14 comments
