Should birth control be given out in school?
Birth control should be given in schools. Pregnancy rates for teens for teens is outrageous and if the schools took some preventative measures maybe they could stop some of the teens who are having sex from having a child at such a young age.
When she was 16 she moved into her dad's house and started living the life of a wild child and got in with the "freak" crowd at school. Amber
Her boyfriend was a burnout slacker. And even though they tried to be careful when they had sex, she got pregnant as a Junior in high school, she didn’t finish school and ended up getting her GED. Amber
Her boyfriend left her right after the baby was born and has no contact with them.
Christina She found out on New Years Eve of her sophomore year she was pregnant.
She was scared and alone, and had never thought that her boyfriend would leave her. She always thought he'd be there to support and comfort her. She was wrong; he was only thinking of himself and how much this would "ruin his life." Christina
Her baby's father told her and her friends, things like “Her baby and her would die in childbirth", he wanted to kill her and was talking about ways he could. Just a week before her baby's birth, he told one of her good friends that if she didn't give the baby up for adoption, he'd "try to find a discrete way to kill it.” Christina
Pregnancies per 1,000 Teenage Girls Pregnancies per 1,000 teenage girls Abortions/Births per 1,000 girls Teenage Pregnancy, Birth & Abortion Rates Click for Detailed Information Click for Detailed Information Year Pregnancy (per thousand) Abortion (per thousand) Birth (per thousand) 1960NA NA NA National Center for Health Statistics, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Centers for Disease Control.
School teachers rate top disciplinary problems Talking out of turn Chewing gum Making noise Running in the halls Cutting in line Dress-code violations Littering Drug abuse Alcohol abuse Pregnancy Suicide Rape Robbery Assault US News and World Report Basic Data: Congressional Quarter Researcher.