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Originally Posted by OnTrack
While I too think 15 is too young to have sex, the "abstinence only" idea is a dismal failure.
Just ask one of its strongest proponents, Sarah Palin, how that worked out in her own family. 
As to the pill, I see it as being a better alternative to a 15 year old ruining her life having a child.... or getting an abortion.
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I agree with your first sentence.....and of course your last sentence....
Not fond of Sarah Palin at all.
Our "kids" now 45 and 42 were raised in the more old fashioned way by us and luckily things worked out just fine.........no surprises as teens, in fact they both were open with me when at college age they met someone, etc. HOWEVER, we as parents were shocked when Planned Parenthood muscled in on our high school kids back in the early 1980's I guess....actually Jr. High (middle school) with explicit sex education about how to put a condom on a banana, etc.........all the parents were upset.
Now, we hear from our peers and our adult children.........that most teen girls in high school, about age 16, are encouraged to go on birth control pills.
Not teaching abstinance up here, that's for sure.
I felt the same way the original poster felt when I read about the morning after pill for the kids............sad commentary on today's society.
Funny, but no one really gave any of us "sex education" in the late 1950's or the early 1960's and yet we just "knew" to wait..........of course, we all got married young, had our families young.........and most of us have survived intact with a nice family of adult children, their spouses and wonderful grandchildren as our reward...........but that was a different era.