Unexpected? Most Teen Pregnancies Are #2
Where do I start.
First of all, this "Healthy Adolescents" campaign by the City of Chicago's Health Department, isn't even original. 30 years ago, in the Chicago Reader, there was a long-running ad from a family-planning clinic showing a large-bellied, "expectant" man and the tagline "But HE can't get pregnant! YOU can. And without adequate protection, you will!"
Second, beyond being humorous in its portrayal of three hip teenagers of varying ethnicities "about to pop", these packets, containing three condoms apiece, are probably not going to stop horny teens whose parents have not laid down the law. The "law" being that they will not become a babysitting service for a high-school-age teen parent who still wants to go out and party, and the solution is to either use birth control each and every time they have sex or to keep their pants on. And any child born of teenage hormones and lack of self-control will immediately be put up for adoption.
But teenage pregnancy rates are dropping, which in part may be the result of teenagers seeing the struggles their parents are going through raising them in an age of stagnant and declining wages, rising prices and taxes, and chronic unemployment.
In which case, today's teenagers may be smarter than they are horny.
Unexpected? Most Teen Pregnancies Are #2
Where do I start.
First of all, this "Healthy Adolescents" campaign by the City of Chicago's Health Department, isn't even original. 30 years ago, in the Chicago Reader, there was a long-running ad from a family-planning clinic showing a large-bellied, "expectant" man and the tagline "But HE can't get pregnant! YOU can. And without adequate protection, you will!"
Second, beyond being humorous in its portrayal of three hip teenagers of varying ethnicities "about to pop", these packets, containing three condoms apiece, are probably not going to stop horny teens whose parents have not laid down the law. The "law" being that they will not become a babysitting service for a high-school-age teen parent who still wants to go out and party, and the solution is to either use birth control each and every time they have sex or to keep their pants on. And any child born of teenage hormones and lack of self-control will immediately be put up for adoption.
But teenage pregnancy rates are dropping, which in part may be the result of teenagers seeing the struggles their parents are going through raising them in an age of stagnant and declining wages, rising prices and taxes, and chronic unemployment.
In which case, today's teenagers may be smarter than they are horny.