Six Steps to Increase the Number of Unintended Pregnancies
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Nancy L. Brown, PhD
According to a brochure that I got in the mail today from Planned Parenthood, women's reproductive rights are in jeopardy. I thought I would translate the brochure into one for parents who want to encourage their teenagers to have a baby before they are 18.Here is what parents can do:
1. Do not provide your children with real sex education. If you want to increase your child's chance of having an unintended pregnancy, teach only abstinence and do not discuss contraception or condom use.
2. Do not let the facts get in your way. Don't believe that condoms can protect from sexually transmitted infection and pregnancy, and don't teach your children to use them.
3. Refuse to let your children use birth control and do not tell them that after the age of 12 (in California) they are guaranteed confidential reproductive health care by law.
4. Make emergency contraception hard to get. Do not tell your children that they can get Plan B within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse.
5. Do not let your kids see condoms ads - watch only Fox and CBS who are resisting condom ads.
6. Do not support family planning services that provide free or low cost contraception to women and vote for congress people who who refuse to increase funding to Title X programs.
There you have it - early grandparenthood, guaranteed!
Photo credit: mahalie
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3 Comments:
At Thu Dec 06, 05:19:00 PM 2007,
Anonymous said…
Speaking as one who taught adolescents in public school for several years, and did not date until age 26 (when I was ready to find a husband), my list would be different. To make sure your daughter gets pregnant early, do the following:
1. Expose her to sex-saturated culture as soon as possible. bratz dolls, suggestive clothes, messages like "hot baby" across her rear.
2. Only compliment her looks, and obsess over them constantly. Make sure she sees herself as "eye candy".
3. Only relate to the men in your life in sexually obsessive or manipulative ways. Teach her to hate men, but to desire to control them.
4. Leave her alone with your predatory neighbor or boyfriend. Many teens who get pregnant are raped or seduced by older men. Make sure he never gets caught by hiding the problem by abortion or birth control, and not communicating with her.
5. Teach her that life is worthless (and so is she) without a man, so she must keep him by any means necessary.
Most girls do not get pregnant out of ignorance anymore- they do it because "everyone else" is having sex, and they have been through the list above (or worse). Sex ed won't solve that. Parenting with love will.
At Mon Dec 10, 04:23:00 PM 2007,
Nancy L. Brown, PhD said…
Wonderful list - thanks so much! That is two votes against what is happening now - one for better sex ed and one for parenting with love!
At Sun Mar 23, 10:42:00 PM 2008,
Anonymous said…
I think both Sex Ed and Parenting with love is necessary in order to keep your teen away from early pregnancy.
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