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Yes, but don't mistake correlation to cause. Would make more sense it is related to social status or upbringing.

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Hmmm I wonder with all that dating violence, Texan might need some medical care.

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Dating violence and non- contraception use sounds like the two main bullet points of date rape.

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>higher noncontraception use

Do you mean lower contraception use?

"Low social status and poor upbringing" are you describing conservatism?

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But without the sex education i guess they’re calling it dating violence

Texas education after all just change the wordage for effect

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A few years ago I did a Masters paper on American sex education. Data out of Texas was shocking. Texas' 'preferred' lesson plan is abstinence-only. Texas holds the record for the most MULTIPLE teen pregnancies. Think of the short time window that a person is a teen and now cram two or more kids in that window while STILL not knowing where babies come from. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/21/texas-teenage-pregnancy-abortion/

Texas textbooks have to be approved by a school board (think conservative parents) and have historically downplayed the effectiveness of contraceptives in an attempt to discourage teens from having sex, but actually end up encouraging teens to not use them at all since they're 'not effective'. A change was passed in 2020 that went into effect this past August, so the ripple effects are yet to be seen. the article even quotes the influence of these boards - "Textbook companies look to Texas to set their standards for the rest of the country because we are such a large textbook purchaser,” Dr. Rayne said. “So it’s not just a Texas issue. We have to consider the way the Texas State Board of Education policy is impacting education on a national level.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/texas-sex-education.html

This ignorance also affects the STD rates among teens. For my paper found a study that stated 2/3 of students not only engaged in sex, but also regularly engaged in oral & anal. That paper worked off the premise that the teens were looking to avoid pregnancy but ended up not only contracting STDs at a high frequency but also contracting them multiple times (lesson never learned).

https://tfn.org/sex-ed/Factsheet_ByTheNumbers_LH_2019.pdf

https://www.keranews.org/2022-04-30/texas-got-a-sex-ed-update-but-students-and-educators-say-theres-still-a-lot-missing

An then the lovely cherry on top is that Texas ranks among the lowest per capita for insured citizens. So, not only have they been aggressively shutting down affordable locations such as Planned Parenthood, they also don't offer many affordable options leaving new mothers or infected individuals with hospital and treatment bills.

https://www.governing.com/now/texas-falls-behind-national-health-insurance-coverage-rate

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Texas is not a safe place to raise a child.

This is not a causal study, they are findings.

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Texas also won’t publish their maternal mortality data… and teenagers are more likely to experience complications compared to fully developed adults.

No, dating violence and date rape are different, even though they often hold hands.

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Why was a study needed? Has nobody met a texan?

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Republicans don’t like birth control age of consent is like 16 most places. there needs to be things in place for teenagers that want birth control whose parent’s wont let them when they turn 16. If they can consent to a life altering decision they should be able to get contraceptive.

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They published it a few days ago. It's 20% higher than last year.

The tribune did an excellent write up on it as well

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Isn't date rape a subset of date violence? That is, date violence is more than just date rape, but all date rape is considered a type of date violence.

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Wait, they're allowed to beat women still? Thought it was just the Bibles.

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Judging by their voting patterns, they don't need it.

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Omg I cannot imagine being a teenager and not knowing where babies come from. Withholding that knowledge from someone should be considered abuse

Sex education classes in public school is not where students learn “where babies come from.”

I suppose lower contraception use could be due to lower sex. But higher non-contraception use suggest they are having sex bit without contraception.

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My sample size is working at a movie theater as a teenager in Texas circa 2010 and being the only one who’d had good sex education. Years later I am deeply saddened by the friends I had there who didn’t even understand at the time that they were being sexually assaulted in their interaction with dudes because horrible behavior by grown ass men as well as their peers was so normalized.

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It shouldn't be, but do you think extremely conservative parents are giving them accurate, detailed, unbiased information at home?

Anyone who can get pregnant should be able to get contraceptives without another person's consent.

I only said 16 because if anyone below that gets pregnant it becomes crime territory.

The staye of sexual wellness in the South is truly depressing. I grew up in MA, one of the best states for education and children, and our public school covered anatomy and abusive relationships in both middle and high school. (There wasn't really any talk on contraceptives, though) I now teach in the South, and there are laws on the books that specifically state that public school teachers must emphasize "abstinence until marriage" and materials explaining the mechanics of same-sex activity are essentially banned. Our district, the largest in the state, makes it an optional unit that can only be taught in the 7th grade science curriculum.

Well, age of consent in Texas is 17, I'm pretty sure people under 17 are still having sex, and I'd prefer those who could get pregnant from rape have unfettered access to contraceptives, as well.

Condoms are available for anyone at any age in Texas.

They are in Texas.

Yeah it's a real shame the schools aren't teaching kids how to give blow jobs and have anal sex. It's like some people don't get that's what schools are for.

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It is, actually.

Is explaining a penis entering a vagina also telling students how to? Teachers don't want minor students involved in sexual activity, but we're trying to prepare them for what they might see outside of school, especially since some are unfortunately already at that point.

Schools are for building foundational life skills and (hopefully) correcting misinformation students encounter. I'd rather students get a factual explanation from a teacher than learn from tiktok or porn, which most middle school-age students have already been exposed to. There's more lgbt youth than ever, and way too many think that since they can't get pregnant, there's no need for precautions or can't be abused.

I think his point was that students learn where babies come from earlier.

Or maybe he's just spewing nonsense.

I agree with you. I was talking about those ignorant bigots who think a school should teach math, reading, and science. Clearly, schools are already doing so well with those subjects they have time for extra stuff. There are some backward mouth breathers out there who believe sex should be taught by parents even though it's uncomfortable and yucky.

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Women on contraceptives have some rational forethought about sex and they are reminded every day when they take their pill: watch out don’t let sex destroy your life.

This can't be the case because governor Abbott has delivered on his public promise of eliminating all rape, so I don't understand how this could happen.

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They break if you don't know how to put them on properly. And %1 ineffective is better than not.

I mean we are talking about teens who DONT know how.

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Because when adults talk about sex education in school we mean sex skills. Not information.

It's a bit older (2005) but there's an interesting documentary centered around a teen in Lubbock, TX who advocated for comprehensive sex ed. It's called "The Education of Shelby Knox".

What exactly is the point you are trying to make?

What are you talking about? Sex education is science based. It doesn't matter who teaches it, so long as it is accurate and informative.

From a political science perspective. Bingo

I agree it doesn't matter who teaches it as long as it's schools!

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That sex education isn't about how to have (better) sex.

Yeah, just the "mechanics" I get it. My point was in agreement with the other commenter. We both think the "mechanics" of blowjobs and anal sex should be included in public schools. I think you agree with me. It's the public schools job to teach kids about a very intimate personal thing like sex and not parents.

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None of this is surprising. It's important that we have data so thank you.

DAMN that’s a high increase. Is it because so many are antivaxxers?

kids don't know to go to obgyno

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I’m in CA and was taught abstinence only as well.

Not if they get pregnant via another teen.

>Think of the short time window that a person is a teen and now cram two or more kids in that window while STILL not knowing where babies come from.

...do people really believe that modern teens don't know how babies are made?

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I grew up in the South and our school let parents pull their kids out of sex ed if they felt it was inappropriate. Needless to say, most of my sex ed was self taught.

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It’s because they banned abortion since last year.

Condoms have a efficacy rate of 98%

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I don't think "accurate, unbiased" describes public schools

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Not true. Governor Abbott deleted all of the rapists in Texas a few years ago.

Students learn it as early as middle school in biology. The study of meiosis will inherently lead to at least a passing mention of "oh yeah, the whole sperm and egg thing, that applies to us humans too."

Condoms dont work when you’re raped because they’re probably not wearing one. Thats why alternatives need to be available

Do the vast majority of teens/children under the age of consent that contract STDs get them from adults?

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Nah. They know porn. But peer to peer education is massively lacking in getting across facts.

They really do not know how pregnancy happens. They believe all the old wives tales about preventing pregnancy.

These are the people doing coke douches cause some other idiot told them, instead of getting plan b

They may know where they come from, but a lot are told outright lies about how to make them or what actually will lead to their having them.

God BLESS America the greatest country on this planet

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so, is texas just one big trailer park?

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