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Teen Sex: Lessons From Europe (Again)
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyLONDON -- Well, here's something to pop your eyes open in case you can't quite shake that post-election torpor. A county in the U.K. has just authorized pharmacies to distribute birth control pills to girls as young as 13, without parental consent. It's a pilot project in the Isle of Wight, best known as a British tourist destination for its ye olde worlde charm. Under the project, teenagers who approach a pharmacist for the morning-after pill will also be able to get a month's supply of the contraceptive pill without seeing a doctor or informing their parents. After that month is up, girls ...
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 ...
Survey: Teens Aren't Getting Any Smarter About Sex
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(June 2) -- Attitudes among American teens about birth control, sexual activity and pregnancy have remained largely unchanged since 2002, according to a new federal report. Stalled progress is bad enough, but some subtle changes also have experts concerned. Most notably, more teens than ever are using the "rhythm method" to prevent pregnancy, and a growing number of teen girls approve of underage childbirth. The report, compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is based on interviews with 2,767 teens, ages 15 to 19, between 2006 and 2008. At the foundation of the report ...
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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