TFA: "Can you imagine being a parent and having your child come home and tell you all the ways they learned in school that you can (have sex)?"

Can you imagine imagining something any more ridiculous?

I support abstinence for many Texans too.

Sleeping Monkey:TFA: "Can you imagine being a parent and having your child come home and tell you all the ways they learned in school that you can (have sex)?"

Can you imagine imagining something any more ridiculous?

Maybe they could come home and tell you all the ways they learned in school to breathe.

Texas is also top 5 in teen pregnancy rate. Correlation or causation?

AcheronX:Texas is also top 5 in teen pregnancy rate. Correlation or causation?

number one according to the Annie E. Casey foundation. 63 per 1000, opposed to 41 per 1000 nationwide.

flavor of the month:AcheronX:Texas is also top 5 in teen pregnancy rate. Correlation or causation?

number one according to the Annie E. Casey foundation. 63 per 1000, opposed to 41 per 1000 nationwide.

We like to fark. What can I say?

Hollywood Cole:We like to fark. What can I say?

Everybody likes to fark. Texans are just really bad at that whole 'not knocking the girl up' thing, apparently. I wonder why that is?

I'd love to see a state-by-state breakdown of per capita condom sales.

Federal statistics in June showed that 52.9 percent of Texas students in ninth through 12th grades had sexual intercourse, compared with 47.8 nationally.

The federal government has spent $1.1 billion on funding for abstinence programs since 1982, according to federal officials. Texas has spent more than other state - almost $117 million, including $32.4 million of its own money.

Seems to be working wonders, as abstinence education always does.

Once again, ideology trumps pragmatism in God's Country.

States like Texas that provide only abstinence-only education should be denied federal funds for social programs. If they want to ignore reality and create a bunch of single, teenage mothers who can't support their children on their own, then they should be the ones to pay for the consequences of their stupidity.

No need to mess with Texas. They mess with themselves enough as it is.

AcheronX:I'd love to see a state-by-state breakdown of per capita condom sales.

crap
dont make me get out my database

My high school in Houston had a maternity wing.

Sleeping Monkey:States like Texas that provide only abstinence-only education should be denied federal funds for social programs.

The money for the abstinence-only programs comes from the feds attached to other money for other actually useful programs. If you want the funding for the good programs from the Feds, you have to teach the abstinence-only program.

It's about the money.

Texas: If it's worth f*cking up, might as well do it big.

This is why Texas also has the highest teen birth rate in the U.S.

Reference (pops)

I blame the Pope.

Kublai Khan:I support abstinence for many Texans too.

This.

What about the buttseks?

Hand lotion, eh?

I suppose lube is illegal in Texas?

ninjakirby:and the CDC

What is the disease, acute sperm poisoning?

But... ear sex is still cool, right?

ArbitraryConstant:My high school in Houston had a maternity wing.

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, the pregnant girls disappeared.
They re-appeared a year later

AcheronX:Hollywood Cole:We like to fark. What can I say?

Everybody likes to fark. Texans are just really bad at that whole 'not knocking the girl up' thing, apparently. I wonder why that is?

I'd love to see a state-by-state breakdown of per capita condom sales.

Because 14 year-old Mexican girls are hyper-fertile.

what the religious wingbats like to gloss over is this kind of non-education leads to MORE abortions...

not that common sense matters when you're listening to some power hungry arsehole telling you what to do out of some magic tome

sararenne
ArbitraryConstant:My high school in Houston had a maternity wing.

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, the pregnant girls disappeared.
They re-appeared a year later

THIS!

/except when they re-appeared they were usually cooler because we all knew they put out

Hmm, states the have high Hispanic populations have high teen pregnacy rates......

Red states lead the nation in BS like this, so it's no surprise they also lead the nation in teen pregnancies.

RogermcAllen:ninjakirby:and the CDC

What is the disease, acute sperm poisoning?

Some wasting disease, causes bloating, cramps, some sort of milky white infusion to inflate the mammary glans - often accompanied by nausea and an increased appetite and hormonal swings. Top scientists are still working on a cure.

Kublai Khan:I support abstinence for many Texans too.

i think that a solution perhaps a bit more final is in order.

sararenne:ArbitraryConstant:My high school in Houston had a maternity wing.

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, the pregnant girls disappeared.
They re-appeared a year later

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, pregnant girls showed up, got big and angry, and left after a year.

My high school was...unique. I think.

AcheronX:

Texas is also top 5 in teen pregnancy rate. Correlation or causation?

maybe if Texas started teaching the classes in spanish we would see the teen pregnancy rates drop.

Also,
Just a thought but they should crush up "the morning after pill" and add it to the girls juices and milk when they are finished with nap time.

/Just a thought

But on a serious note I remember when Mexican girls turned 15 we usuaully took bets on how long they had before they looked like they were smuggling a basketballs under thier shirts. Usually they got preggers by men in thier 20s'

/not racist
//just what I have seen

Midnight Poptart:sararenne:ArbitraryConstant:My high school in Houston had a maternity wing.

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, the pregnant girls disappeared.
They re-appeared a year later

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, pregnant girls showed up, got big and angry, and left after a year.

My high school was...unique. I think.

gotta know what school now :)
(I went to Clear Lake High)

Do y'all really think that kids in Texas don't know about condoms and birth control? School doesn't teach anybody anything, so you guys should stop caring so much about abstinence being taught in school. It really has nothing to do with the teenage birth rate.

Just put it in her butt.

TheJoe03:so you guys should stop caring so much about abstinence being taught in school. It really has nothing to do with the teenage birth rate.

Don't you defend these retarded programs.

Wait. Are we blaming this on the Mexicans or the Christians?

Or, is this one of those perfect storm sorts of things?

nerfball:AcheronX:

Texas is also top 5 in teen pregnancy rate. Correlation or causation?

maybe if Texas started teaching the classes in spanish we would see the teen pregnancy rates drop.

This, unfortunately.

The majority of our teen pregnancies are hispanic girls from low income households. And, since this is Texas, guess where they came from...

/Not trying to be a douche, thats just the way it is

TheJoe03:Do y'all really think that kids in Texas don't know about condoms and birth control? School doesn't teach anybody anything, so you guys should stop caring so much about abstinence being taught in school. It really has nothing to do with the teenage birth rate.

This. Liberal california has a nearly as high teenage preggers rate. Mexicans contribute highly, they tend to have a lower economic standing and are largely catholic. Blame nazi pope for brainwashing huge populations against safe sex, health class in school is a joke.

ninjakirby:Texas
101

thank you. I was going to ask if anyone had any stats on teen pregnancy in Texas.

While the national teen birth rate has slowed, Texas has made far less headway, alarming public health officials and child advocates.

What are the statistics for pregnancy rates?

nerfball:AcheronX:

Texas is also top 5 in teen pregnancy rate. Correlation or causation?

maybe if Texas started teaching the classes in spanish we would see the teen pregnancy rates drop.

Ooh, racist and stupid! You win!

Abstinence-only leads to increased pregnancy rates. That's what it's intended to do.

TheJoe03:Do y'all really think that kids in Texas don't know about condoms and birth control? School doesn't teach anybody anything, so you guys should stop caring so much about abstinence being taught in school. It really has nothing to do with the teenage birth rate.

Yes, they really don't know. They think that you can't get pregnant the first time, you can't get pregnant if you douche afterwards, or if you hold your breath, or all sorts of other crap.

Most important, if you tell people it's a sin to *plan* to have sex, they get preggers. They don't stop having sex; they just refuse to admit to themselves that's what they'll do.

If you look at the people advocating abstinence only, they don't even claim it reduces pregnancy; they think it reduces sex outside of marriage.

FTA: Abstinence supporters say it's the job of parents, not the schools, to determine how much their teenage children know about contraceptives.

"Can you imagine being a parent and having your child come home and tell you all the ways they learned in school that you can (have sex)?" said Republican state Rep. Rob Eissler, chairman of the House Public Education Committee.

It's similar to using computers, the kids can give you advice.

Bevets:While the national teen birth rate has slowed, Texas has made far less headway, alarming public health officials and child advocates.

What are the statistics for pregnancy rates?

Look it up. You don't have Google?

I live in Houston but grew up in Lake Jackson. I don't think pregger rates have anything to do with it being Texas... We are on the mexican border and we took the large majority of the Katrina "victims". Coincidence?

/No.

ultraholland:TheJoe03:so you guys should stop caring so much about abstinence being taught in school. It really has nothing to do with the teenage birth rate.

Don't you defend these retarded programs.

I'm not defending abstinence programs at all, I just think it's a non-issue that has no real affect on birth rate or how many people are having sex. No one gives a shiat about health class so it really doesn't matter what the hell they teach.

sararenne
Midnight Poptart:sararenne:ArbitraryConstant:My high school in Houston had a maternity wing.

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, the pregnant girls disappeared.
They re-appeared a year later

Funny,
At my high school in Houston, pregnant girls showed up, got big and angry, and left after a year.

My high school was...unique. I think.

gotta know what school now :)
(I went to Clear Lake High)

Went to Cleveland High off of Hwy 59 NE Houston

DPoem:Wait. Are we blaming this on the Mexicans or the Christians?

Or, is this one of those perfect storm sorts of things?

Most Mexicans are obsessed with the Virgin Mary. Does that help?