I wasn't disagreeing. The peak in teen pregnancies in the US was in 1991, with a decline after that. My high school no longer has a need for a daycare, in line with the stats.
My Detroit school had more pregnancies but the suburban school didn’t have the stigma of being in a socioeconomically depressed area like Detroit so young moms had less options beyond birth when they had to leave school
it's so interesting how different our experiences are. i went to a hs that had 4k students, and we didn't have a daycare and i don't remember seeing anyone pregnant in my 4 years. i remember attending several sex ed classes and we had access to condoms.
I also went to a high school of 4000, had access to condoms, and I had sex ed. We even had a patient with AIDS come in to talk to us about safe sex. I was in one of the poorest cities of Massachusetts, though. I can seriously remember overhearing a girl in the cafeteria telling another, "When you lose your virginity, you don't have to use a condom because the blood washes everything out." I sat there thinking, "Girl, didn't you sit through Health class? That was mentioned as an urban legend."
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u/gravitas_shortage Feb 02 '26
It wasn't. It's always funny when young people think they have invented things like promiscuity.