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The administration is funding a $100,000 study of pregnant and "at-risk" 14-17-year-old girls on probation in Houston, Texas, to determine ways to help them choose safer lifestyles and avoid pregnancy, including better "condom negotiation" tactics.
The National Institutes of Health, part of the Health and Human Services Department, is providing a University of Houston researcher the money because of the lack of study of female teen juveniles in trouble with the law.
The school said the study, "Choices - Teen: A Bundled Risk Reduction Intervention for Juvenile Justice Females," will include 30 at-risk girls, ages 14-17, on intensive probation with the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department.
The goal, said the school, is to determine if intervention programs will help the kids make better life decisions
I guess in todays world, to still think we should encourage and teach teens to NOT have sex, you're considered old fashioned and an idiot. I guess that is what I am to some of you.
Even so, to spend money on condom negotiations rather than telling them "hey, maybe you should just NOT HAVE SEX yet", is disturbing and just a sign of the times. More government waste. To have to teach a female to say no to sex without a condom, using tax payer dollars....... Unreal.
Seriously, focusing on condom negotiations instead of not having sex. They are teenagers. They should be encouraged to not have sex. Hollywood sure as hell doesnt help either. They practically urge them to do it.
I guess in todays world, to still think we should encourage and teach teens to NOT have sex, you're considered old fashioned and an idiot. I guess that is what I am to some of you.
Even so, to spend money on condom negotiations rather than telling them "hey, maybe you should just NOT HAVE SEX yet", is disturbing and just a sign of the times. More government waste. To have to teach a female to say no to sex without a condom, using tax payer dollars....... Unreal.
Seriously, focusing on condom negotiations instead of not having sex. They are teenagers. They should be encouraged to not have sex. Hollywood sure as hell doesnt help either. They practically urge them to do it.
Can you explain why you think telling kids not to have sex will be a successful strategy in reducing pregnancies and STDs?
Can you explain why you think telling kids not to have sex will be a successful strategy in reducing pregnancies and STDs?
So you dont tell them that? I think if Hollywood cleaned up its act, including music/tv/movie stars/programs, and we focused more on the consequences of having sex while still a teenager, yes, I think it would help. But we dont do that. Its practically encouraged. I still fault many parents though, who dont put their foot down on what their kids watch and listen to. If parents did more to say no and had a more active role in their kids lives and shut the door on the entertainment industry, maybe theyd get the message and clean up their act.
Why should we have to spend tax dollars to tell them they obvious. And what makes you so sure that will work? A females has always held the power to say no, not without protection.
Focus more on not doing it, and all the things that can happen as a result. But I guess I should expect that. In todays world, that has to be explained to all these liberal women who want others to pay for their birth control and they still dont get it. So this really doesnt shock me.
More government waste. To have to teach a female to say no to sex without a condom, using tax payer dollars....... Unreal.
But maybe we have a lot of really dumb girls...... and they need lots of coaching like; First you tear off the edge of the package, then you unroll part way, then.....
But maybe we have a lot of really dumb girls...... and they need lots of coaching like; First you tear off the edge of the package, then you unroll part way, then.....
If that's the case then we're focusing on the wrong gender
Unless the boys are that helpless.....
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