Is there, in our society, the ability to give them the reasoning to not have children? (or has that now become some kind or right or right of passage?
We cannot expect to find success among among all classes and ethnicities by teaching them about relationships, sex and reproduction in the exact same manner
Thus, Abstinence Education may work with suburban kids who have educated parents and who have other avenues of information available to them if they wish to research contraception.
However, those kids who have uneducated parents and thus may not have the intellectual discipline to choose abstinence, will not be well served with Abstinence Education. Furthermore, these kids likely do not have access to the Internet or the skills required to research birth control.
Therefore, since the parents in that second group are failing to provide their children with the abilities to make wise decisions or at least to conduct research on matters of reproduction, it is up to us, the educated, to see to it that our schools provide this information.
Schools or society, I don't know which, probably both. (I may be too tired to be coherent or thoughtful on this now)
Education, Yes, perhaps also 'consequences' before and after? Are we as a society being too lenient in providing for those that don't care how their consequences affect others?
Consequences for parents/child and hopefully that will be an education (which most of us were brought up under?)
Perhaps even Society must be educated to be aware?
I now live in a town where there is a curfew (and a firehouse whistle to alert of same). That's something I never needed where I grew up... my parents took care of that!