I think the real story is that teens do actually need supervision. Their hormones are through the roof, and though many girls particularly would be better off both emotionally and in dealing with a teen-birth aftermath if they abstained longer, expecting that, given the opportunity and the heat of the moment, is, as Bristol once said, ‘unrealistic’.
Would that parents were indeed the parents of old—and the old country—and they didn’t permit such opportunities. Call me old fashioned, but I really believe that is the answer.
I agree. People now act like it “has” to happen, but why didn’t it happen as often in the past when it was socially proscribed to be an unwed mother, and the word bastard wasn’t what you called your ex-husband? It’s not that people didn’t think young people didn’t get the same urges they get now, they absolutely DID think that they did, and took steps to keep their urges from overcoming their emotional maturity and capability of raising a family.