65 girls at area high school pregnant - ohio (1 Viewer)

[hiphophorray123]

source: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4885861/detail.html



POSTED: 12:30 pm EDT August 23, 2005

CANTON, Ohio -- There are 490 female students at Timken High School, and 65 are pregnant, according to a recent report in the Canton Repository.


The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.


School officials are not sure what has caused so many pregnancies, but in response to them, the school is launching a three-prong educational program to address pregnancy, prevention and parenting.

The newspaper also reported that students will face mounting tensions created by unplanned child-rearing responsibilities, causing students to quit school and plan for a GED. This will make it difficult for the Canton City School District to shake its academic watch designation by the state.

According to the Canton Health Department, statistics through July show that 104 of the 586 babies born to Canton residents in Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center had mothers between 11 and 19.


The newspaper reports that the non-Canton rate was 7 percent. Canton was 15 percent.

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is this an indicator of how fucking weak teens are getting? If you can't handle peer-pressure then just die.

 

[transcendent]

Maybe there's just one father

 

[Rafy]

11??? =/

 

[011]

Yeh I know i was thinking the same thing about 11....

How the hell does THAT happen?

 

[Phanatical]

This is what happens with a lack of discipline and a school system encouraging students to practice "safe sex" instead of "no sex".

 

[transcendent]

This is what happens with a lack of discipline and a school system encouraging students to practice "safe sex" instead of "no sex".

This is America! They force abstinence not teach 'safe sex'! Another one of your silly conclusions woman hater.

 

[SashatheMan]

video games are to be blamed for pregnancy?? haha

 

[SashatheMan]

soem guy just spreading his seed.

 

[rink]

This is what happens with a lack of discipline and a school system encouraging students to practice "safe sex" instead of "no sex".

Agreed. Though this is really really awful

As for the 11year old thing, it's possible...........there was a 5year old from venezuala who gave birth, shocking ay!

 

[alissa_xoxo]

11?

5!?!?

Theres gotta be at least 65 girls at Ambarvale pregnant. *joke!*

 

[my sharona]

Maybe there's just one father

Maybe it's you

 

[pLuvia]

11 wtf... thats crazy

 

[Xayma]

This is America! They force abstinence not teach 'safe sex'! Another one of your silly conclusions woman hater.

Exactly. Rink, Ohio teaches abstinence only until marriage programs. Safe sex programs would've most likely reduced the number.

We had safe sex classes, and had one pregnant female in our year. She came from another school already pregnant (with the father who also moved).

 

[paper cup]

Agreed. Though this is really really awful

As for the 11year old thing, it's possible...........there was a 5year old from venezuala who gave birth, shocking ay!

OK 11, maybe, but FIVE? how can you get pregnant when you're five. it's not biologically possible.

Western society is very sexed up, 'tis the way it is...in yr 7 there were kids having sex.

 

[Not-That-Bright]

I bet soma was behind this.

 

[sly fly]

OK 11, maybe, but FIVE? how can you get pregnant when you're five. it's not biologically possible.

Western society is very sexed up, 'tis the way it is...in yr 7 there were kids having sex.

Yeah thats what I thought. Have a look -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

http://youngest_mother.tripod.com/

 

[googooloo]

Techniqually if you have your periods you can get pregnant,adn there have been cases of girls menstruating at 5 and even earlier. So you would be able to wouldn't u?

 

[googooloo]

OK 11, maybe, but FIVE? how can you get pregnant when you're five. it's not biologically possible.

Western society is very sexed up, 'tis the way it is...in yr 7 there were kids having sex.

It is true, I mean, I knew girls in primary school, yr5-6 who were sexually active, and smoking and drinking.

 

[santaslayer]

video games are to be blamed for pregnancy?? haha

The Sims!!!!!

 

[katie_tully]

This is what happens with a lack of discipline and a school system encouraging students to practice "safe sex" instead of "no sex".

Um ...

Ohio received $8,086,793 in federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs

Ohio does not require schools to teach sexuality education. However, the board of education of each
school district must establish a health curriculum for “all schools under their control,” that includes
information regarding STDs (Sexually Transmitted diseases) and HIV/AIDS. This information must
emphasize that “abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is one hundred per cent
effective against unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and the sexual transmission of a
virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.”

I won't comment further. Maybe you can blame somebody else now?
http://www.siecus.org/policy/states/2004/Ohio.pdf