Tulsa County’s teen birth rate fell 20 percent from 2012 to 2013, according to statistics released recently by the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
That far outpaced the rate statewide, where the rate fell 9 percent, according to the department.
Kim Schutz, executive director of the Tulsa Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, said programs such as evidence-based, comprehensive sex education at schools have helped teenagers in Tulsa County get the messages needed to prevent pregnancy, she said.
“It comes down to teens making better decisions,” she said.
The teen birth rate in Tulsa County was 37.5 per 1,000 teenage girls ages 15 to 19 in 2013, down from 46.8 per 1,000 the year before, Schutz said.
Not exactly shocking to learn that having comprehensive sex education has a bigger impact on preventing teen pregnancy than simply telling kids to say no.
Of course you cannot tell some people that.
Good for Tulsa County in embracing an educational program that actually helps their community rather than one that is supported by religious fundamentalists who believe that virginity is more precious than gold and that sex is something women must endure in order to trap a husband and live in an upscale neighborhood.
Who is that teen with the weak chin holding the baby?
ReplyDeletedon't know who the model is, but the baby looks like Breeze Johnston....
Deletenyuk, nyuk, nyuk
Caught On Tape: Horrible Abuse, Coercion At Church Youth Camp (Video)
ReplyDeleteThe video, which was originally shared publicly by a counselor on Rose of Sharon’s own page, was removed from Facebook, and the summer camp’s Facebook page was quickly hidden from the public eye after concerned individuals saw the horrific emotional and mental abuse children were suffering at the hands of adults at the camp in their efforts to show a sufficient amount of reverence for the bearded sky djinn they are expected to worship.
http://aattp.org/caught-on-tape-horrible-abuse-coercion-at-church-youth-camp-video/
wow thanks for the link.
Deletesick people just sick
Shocking, really, that a county in OK embraced this.
ReplyDeleteI would like to point out that comprehensive sex education ( or biology as I call it) is not anti saving your virginity. Sex Ed is all about education about our bodies and how they function. I went to school yrs ago with a girl that was told if she danced with a boy in the dark she would get pregnant, like the good christian she was raised to be she never danced in a darkened school gym, but she did have intercourse with her boyfriend at 15 and became pregnant. Kudos to Tulsa school board for being smart enough to go against the religious powers to be and doing the right thing.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point!
DeleteBristol Palin’s eyes look dead in that photo.
ReplyDeleteThat's because like her mother, she sold her soul for influence and notoriety.
DeleteThey're supposed to.
Delete"Vicky Hollywood" certainly has no problem exploiting her child for cold, hard cash.
DeleteThat's her "I haz a sad" look, which matches her "I haz a happy" look. A tomato without salt.
DeleteThe mostly rural county next to mine (in Ohio) has noticed a sharp spike in teen births in the month of April for several years running. They now believe that the annual county fair in July might have something to do with those results. Still, they refuse to make condoms available for the kids, saying they are not responsible for "those sorts of things". Yeah, all that talk about mating your "project" with someone else's "project" just keeps the kids minds on business, right? SMH
ReplyDeleteThe first photo could be Bristol about 4 times. Where are your other babies, Bristol?
ReplyDeleteHi!
ReplyDeleteCould you sign this petition: change.org/petitions/board-of-education-and-all-educational-facilities-and-municipalities-reform-education-so-that-it-s-fair-for-all-and-not-for-the-elite-few-or-the-dull-many-no-child-left-behind
Thanks, but I'm not signing it. Too "radical" for me.
DeleteTeen pregnancy rates have been dropping overall since 2007. FACT.
ReplyDeletePregnancy rates in general JUST started rising this year after a multi decade continual decrease
A 20% decrease in one school district is not overall affected by any national movement, but what they have done internally. But thanks for playing, better luck next time.
DeleteOh look Bristol, you're still a statistic.... even after auditioning all of those new daddies.
ReplyDeleteOff topic.
ReplyDeletePost a clip of rollin coal on some person? Post that clip with your name and town? You must be from Atoka Oklahoma.
www.liveleak.com/view?i=a9d_1405875903 .
750,000 will become pregnant this year........
ReplyDeleteAnd how many will become pregnant twice Bristol ?
Or 3 times.
Or 4.
perhaps...but will they be repeat mothers??? like Bristol et al?
ReplyDeleteA good program. Now if the schools would also do parenting classes, especially for young males. I believe stats show that deaths of children 3 and younger go down when young men, especially understand how to care for their offspring.
ReplyDeleteKnowledge is Power. A single mother advocating abstinence is a joke.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot more to "Sex Education" than plumbing, hormones and facts, it's a shared responsibility for both sexes. The only way to make this even more of a success is to teach boys what it takes to be a man and both sexes need to face the facts of what could happen with unprotected sex beyond a baby. There's deadly STD's and std's can effect future fertility.
education = good
ReplyDeletereligious dogma = worse than useless