Teens need to know if they make a mistake they will be treated compassionately by their family and society. Young people need to have honest and medically accurate sex education. We need enhanced outreach and support for at-risk parents. Greater access to birth control, including insurance coverage of all FDA-approved contraception, should be made available. Ultimately a change in attitude is needed in our country.
Women are objectified.
Advertising urges us to buy through sexual innuendo. In these media, the consequences of sex remain invisible or minimized. Until this changes, the unspoken message we send our children is have sex, have sex, have sex. Censorship is not the answer. The responsibility is ours as individuals to change our attitudes, our priorities and how we spend our time and money.