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Schadenfreude: Baby bump edition
August 25th, 2006 General

So it seems that at least 13% of female students at one Ohio High School didn’t get the school’s Abstinence only sex-ed message.

Even more troubling:

According to the Canton Health Department, statistics through July 2005 showed that 104 of the 586 babies born to Canton residents in Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center had mothers between the ages of 11 and 19.

Emphasis mine. That’s almost 20%

Apparently the schoolboard is now expanding the teaching of sex-ed beyond just say no. Shocked, I am.

(h/t: Savagelove)


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39 Comment from Joshua Prowse August 27, 2006, 5:14 pm

Let me repeat that for emphasis: 11-YEAR-OLD MOTHERS!

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