Teen Pregnancy Advisor

An organization that offers help to South Georgia parents talk with their teens about sex and pregnancy are going to find that there’s support for them.
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In order to effectively reduce teen pregnancy (and the frequency of abortion along with it), it is essential that teens (and others) have access to birth control. While the election of Barack Obama is likely to change the way that sex ed is provided and could overturn decisions that President Bush may make, there is an effort planned by the current administration to further limit a woman’s right to choose - going so far as to eliminate birth control.
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• Teen pregnancy and racy TV the chicken or the egg? http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/529048.html #
• No sex may be the only safe sex, but kids need to know about safer sex practiced: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20081105/OPINI … #
• More TV programming geared toward teens rumored to address teen pregnancy: http://tinyurl.com/6nod7q #

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics and a new published study, teen pregnancy can be linked in some ways to the TV watching habits of teens and other young viewers. Ultimately, the result of the study showed that those teens - 12- 17 years old - who watched the most TV programming that included casual sex and casual sexual relationships were twice as likely as peers who didn’t watch the programming to become pregnant.
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• No on 4: Why it’s important. http://tinyurl.com/6363oj #
• Talking with teens to prevent unplanned teen pregnancy. http://tinyurl.com/6fptpp #
• legislating family communication simply doesn’t work (No on 4): http://tinyurl.com/65d6n8 #

One of the things that people have been talking about when it comes to teen pregnancy has been in the news over the past week and it was the topic of the previous post in this blog: it’s the fact that the USA Today pulled an ad that was geared towards parents and encouraging them to talk about sexuality with their teen. The problem, they said, is that the ad might offend some of their readers.
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While the USA Today chose not to print the full page print ad of talking points aimed to get parents and their teens talking about pregnancy and the ways in which having a baby while still a teen will impact the way that life plays out, the Candies Foundation did air a PSA during the WB Network’s popular “Gossip Girl” series.
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Is it really possible to break the issue of teen sexuality and teen pregnancy down into black and white? Or, since this is election season, let’s put it this way: is it really possible to break the issue of teen sexuality and teen pregnancy into red and blue?
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In this political season, California is attempting to pass a proposition that would require teen girls to notify their parents before having an abortion. Those who work with teens say that this is dangerous.
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There are a number of reasons why teen pregnancy in the United States seems to be on the rise again, and one of the assumed reasons is that if it is good enough for celebrities and those who have been thrust into the spotlight, it must be something to aspire too. However, when you approach anyone who has been a pregnant teen, particularly if they have come from a poor family or are, well, not Caucasian, there is a double standard: the reality hardly ever looks anything like the fantasy did.
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