Posted on 06/15/2004 6:36:14 AM PDT by esryle
RICHMOND, Va. -- The state is posting billboards with messages such as "Isn't she a little young?" as part of a campaign to dissuade men from having sex with underage girls.
The campaign is aimed at reducing the number of young girls who have children with older men, the Virginia Department of Health said Monday.
In 1999 and 2000 in Virginia, men over 18 were responsible for 219 births involving girls who were 13 and 14, the department said.
Messages such as "Isn't she a little young?" and "Sex with a minor, don't go there" also appear on posters, coasters and napkins in bars, restaurants and stores in five cities.
"We encourage adult men to talk to their peers and discourage them from pursuing teenagers. What they are doing is unhealthy and against the law," said Robert Franklin, a health department official.
Perhaps Michael Moore could do a documentary about all this......
You just illustrated my problem with much of this. I wouldn't consider an 18 year old who's involved with a 15 year old a pedophile by any stretch of the imagination.
I'd like to see such an educational campaign in my neck of the woods. Statutory rape and teen pregnancy are still big problems in Central California. Especially in Hispanic neighborhoods.
"Just damn" alert
"There's just no end to the horror caused by men."
Can you say "Susan Smith"?
I'm sure you are joking about blaming everything on men, but a serious point should be made about women who kill their own children just to be rid of them (whether prenatal or postnatal) or who let a man live in their house with their children when they have only known them for two weeks.
WE have that on buses out here in California.
"Perhaps Michael Moore could do a documentary about all this......"
He could call it "Fahrenheit 30/13"
Why don't Blonds in San Francisco wear mini-skirts?? Because their balls show!
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