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Bristol Palin's Washington University Appearance Canceled Amid Protests
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyBristol Palin will not be speaking about abstinence at Washington University in St. Louis next month. The university said in an e-mailed statement, "The student group that invited Bristol Palin...has mutually agreed with her not to proceed with a contract regarding Palin's participation in a panel discussion at Washington University on Feb. 7." The university's Student Health Advisory Committee invited Palin, who became a single mother at 18 and is now a spokeswoman for the prevention of teen pregnancy, to speak on abstinence during Washington University's student Sexual Responsibility Week. ...
Why Aren't US Teens Having Babies So Much Anymore?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsIs abstinence the new normal? The teen pregnancy rate hit a record low in 2009, according to new data just released by the National Center for Health Statistics. The birth rate last year fell to 39.1 births per 1,000 teens, a decrease of 6 percent from 2008. What's keeping America's teens childless? Surge Desk takes a look at a few of the competing explanations. No one's having babies at any age American teens could just be emulating their older role models; hardly anyone had babies in 2009. Birth rates also fell for women in their early 20s and for women in their late 20s and early ...
'The Situation' Offers Bristol Palin a Condom, Bristol Declines in New PSA
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- Bristol Palin doesn't need any condoms. So when The Situation from MTV's "Jersey Shore" pulled out a long stack of Magnum brand rubbers and offered one to her, the teen mom and abstinence advocate declined. The awkward exchange is part of a new public service announcement filmed by the odd couple, who teamed up to, err, prevent teen pregnancy. In the Candie's Foundation PSA, The Situation and Sarah Palin's daughter discuss the merits of safe sex versus abstinence. "I know you're all about that abstinence thing, but come on, B-Palin, are you serious?" The Situation asks ...
Gawker's Christine O'Donnell 'One-Night Stand' Story Denounced by Left, Right
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- Did Gawker just cross the line, big time? The Manhattan-based gossip website published a piece today by an anonymous author who purports to have had a one-night stand with Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell on Halloween night three years ago. The piece had been something of a smash hit for Gawker, at least traffic-wise, receiving more than 180,000 page views in less than two hours, according to partner website Jezebel. But the salacious nature of the account coupled with the timing of its release (less than a week before the election) has brought about swift ...
Does O'Donnell Want the Whole Country to Stop Having Sex?
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Sept. 24) -- Stop, in the name of love? In newly unearthed video footage taken from a 2003 taping of the MSNBC show "Scarborough Country," Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is shown debating the topic of sexual abstinence and appears to suggest that the whole country should give up sex (presumably the premarital kind). The exchange came with Eric Nies of the Moment of Hope Foundation, a group that seeks to educate young people about safe-sex practices. Here's how the back-and-forth went: NIES: I tell them to be careful. You have to wear a condom. You have to protect ...
Evangelical Leaders Take on Alcohol: Abstinence, Usually
By David Gibson - Politics DailyEvangelical Christians are often seen as the cultural and spiritual heirs of the Puritans, but when it comes to drinking spirits, today's evangelical leaders may be more abstemious than their Pilgrim forebears, who usually brought casks of beer and wine with them since they rarely drank water back in England. A new survey of top American evangelicals shows that 60 percent said they do not drink alcohol socially, and many of the 40 percent who said they do take a drink specified that they do so "in moderation" and "never in excess," while others said they drink "rarely" and only "on special ...
Bristol Palin's Acting Debut: 'We're All Teen Moms'
By Mara Gay - AOL News(June 24) -- Bristol Palin's acting debut is almost here. ABC has announced that the high-profile teen mom will guest-star on the July 5 episode of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," an ABC Family drama about a teenage mother, played by actress Shailene Woodley. A clip from the upcoming episode shows the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin assuring Woodley's character that she can make it as a young mother. "We're all teen moms," says Bristol, who plays herself on the show. The cameo is the latest stop on the 19-year-old's abstinence tour. Earlier this year, she signed on ...
Teen Sex in America: Is No Change Good or Bad?
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyAbstinence-based sex education remained front and center as a tool of public policy through the past decade, with a particular emphasis on convincing unmarried teenagers to forgo having sex. And that makes the results of a survey recently released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention particularly interesting. The report is titled "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2008." It's a follow-up to a series of similar surveys, the last taken in 2002. The focus is on males and females ages ...
Sarah Palin Never Told Bristol About the 'Birds and the Bees'
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyAmong the more compelling bits of background information teen mom Bristol Palin reveals about her famous family in the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar is the fact neither of her parents, Todd and Sarah Palin, ever gave her the "sex talk." "It's not like we all sat down and were like, 'Alright, here's the birds and the bees,'" Palin told the magazine. "Truly, my parents just assumed that I wasn't doing anything. And it was a shock for us all." Bristol's pregnancy by then-boyfriend Levi Johnston caused a sensation on the presidential campaign trail back in 2008, especially since she was only ...
Kiddie Condoms: The Newest Weapon Against Teen Pregnancy
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyApparently, sometimes size really does matter. A Swiss company has created an extra-small condom aimed at 12-to-14-year-old boys. It's called -- wait for it -- the Hotshot. ...
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