... , it does not do the one thing we all wished it would: make them more responsible. In a landmark study of ten exemplary programs published by the Center For Disease Control (CDC) in 1984, no evidence was found that knowledge significantly influenced the responsibility of sexually active teens. In ... get pregnant, condoms are not foolproof); and with the supposed foolproof pill, up to eighteen percent of teen girls will get pregnant within the first year. If you project these failure rates a few years ahead of now, unintended pregnancies begin to look uncomfortably close to inevitability....

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