'Romantic Sleepovers' Prevent Teen Pregnancy?
December 8, 2012
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as posted by the channel"A new study suggests if the United States wants to decrease unwanted pregnancy and STIs among teenagers, it should take a look at how parents in the Netherlands handle budding teenage sexuality: romantic sleepovers. (Video: HLN)
The study, posted on Contexts.org, explains the Dutch approach to sexual education.
"Dutch parents... downplay the dangerous and difficult sides of teenage sexuality... They speak of readiness... a process of becoming physically and emotionally ready for sex that they believe young people can self-regulate, provided they've been encouraged to pace themselves."
The study says in 2007, teen births in the United States were eight times as high as in the Netherlands despite America's focus on abstinence. Sociological Images provides one explanation for the disparity:
"Most American teenagers hide their virginity loss from their parents... often without protection against pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In contrast, most Dutch teenagers lose their virginity in their own bedrooms with their parents approval... and condoms."*
Are abstinence-only and anti-abortion education leading to higher teen pregnancy rates in the United States? In the Netherlands, where parents allow teenage "romantic sleepovers" and there is access to contraception, the rates of pregnancy and abortion in teenagers are significantly lower. Could this be implemented in the United States, or would it never be allowable by parents? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the story and Jayar Jackson considers the possibility.
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