y in 1988 that the government first started collecting any data concerning teen-age boys¡ sexual behavior. ¡§And the Urban Institute¡s report is the first documenting the role of teen-age boys in problems including teen pregnancy, out-of-wedlock births and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.¡
These facts raise the question, what is the scope of the teen pregnancy epidemic? Where do teen fathers, such as my friend Sean, fit in? Throughout many Sex-Ed classes, abstinence is promoted. I can clearly remember in my Sex-Ed class (my sophomore year of high school), when I learned that ¡§the only safe sex is no sex.¡ However, we were also taught that if we were going to have sex, we needed to be protected. Despite these measures of prevention, the is little education for those people, who have been protected (such as Steve and his girlfriend) yet still become statistics. There needs to be more done to educate young
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