It should be discussed in the home. Regardless of where credit is assigned for the declining number of teen pregnancies, the U.S. rate is still appallingly high compared to other developed nations. Pregnancy rates around the world are much lower compared to the U.S., according to a 1988 survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is currently updating the data. Adolescents in France and the Netherlands all enjoy much lower rates of births, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases than American teens, perhaps because European teens tend to become sexually active later than American teens. In one TV commercial, a pretty young woman kicks a man out of bed when he refuses to use a condom.
Young people have a right to health care and accurate information about sex.
In this country, you have a federally mandated censorship of any information about use of contraceptives for the prevention of STD, AIDS and pregnancy. Ignorance is nobody's ally in the era of AIDS, for God's sake. Whether these ads get the credit or something more intangible in the culture accounts for it, the pregnancy numbers in these countries are significantly lower. Same Goal, Different Path Farish doesn't believe these figures could be accurate. I wouldn't be surprised if the Netherlands has a higher pregnancy rate than we do.