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Teen-agers warned about promiscuity
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A man raped a 15-year-old girl 37 years ago. After discovering she was pregnant, the girl later decided to give birth to the child — instead of having an abortion.
Concerned about her ability to provide the child with a healthy and prosperous upbringing, the teen-age girl relinquished her newborn for adoption, hoping another family could give her baby what she couldn’t.
Pam Stenzel doesn’t know her biological mother or father. She doesn’t know anything of her natural family’s descent or medical dispositions.
What Stenzel does know, however, is how teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) can wreak havoc on people’s lives.
Stenzel, who has addressed the United Nations and the U.S. Congress, has taken her message of sexual abstinence before marriage — or maintaining a monogamous relationship — to tens of thousands of children in the United States and other countries.
Stenzel has been speaking to students at middle and high schools in Lake and Sumter counties this week. She presents some alarming statistics that show a sharp rise in the number and types of STDs among teenagers and young adults and how teen pregnancy dramatically increases young mothers’ chances of living in poverty.
Stenzel said she wants to let people know the financial and medical consequences of premarital sex before they decide to engage in it. She was a pregnancy counselor before becoming a full-time motivational speaker eight years ago.
“I had kids in my office who said, ‘Nobody told me this,’” she said. “There were a lot of teenagers who had no idea what the consequences were.”
Stenzel’s sometimes comic, sometimes sassy, fast-talking presentation of facts and figures startled many of the girls and boys who attended the 11 school assemblies.
Her urging of girls to demand respect from boyfriends occasionally angered some of the older high-school boys, she said.
Stenzel, who gets much of her information from the Center of Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, said she wants to let teenagers and young adults know what’s in store for them if they decide to engage in promiscuous sex.
“If you have sex outside marriage or outside of a monogamous relationship, you will pay,” she said. “My goal is they won’t be able to say, ‘Nobody told me. I didn’t know.’”
In 1967, one in 32 people was infected by an STD. Sixteen years later, the number was one in 18. Four years ago, the CDC reports one in four people are infected.
Stenzel said the most common sexual misconceptions concern pregnancy. “We still have teenagers saying, ‘If I don’t get pregnant, I’ll be all right. No way!”
Girls are four times more likely of contracting an STD from sex than of getting pregnant, and many STDs, especially the viral form, are incurable and contagious.
Stenzel said once a teenager becomes pregnant her options become “bad, terrible or even worse. There are consequences — lifelong.”
More than 80 percent of teen mothers live in poverty, and the majority of those girls will never graduate high school. “The number one indicator of poverty (in the United States) is being a single parent,” Stenzel said.
New laws require social security numbers of both parents on newborns’ birth certificates. The typical cost of a father’s child-support payments is between $60,000 and $80,000. “That’s a serious responsibility, boys,” Stenzel said. “You’re going to have to live through whatever choices you make for the rest of your life. The best choice you can make is before you have sex.”
More than 12,000 teenagers are on average contracting an STD per day, Stenzel said.
Fifty years ago doctors identified five STDs. Today there are 30, more than 30 percent of them incurable.
“You get it for life,” Stenzel said. “These are serious diseases. They have serious consequences.”
What makes it worse is many diseases are not readily detected and are discovered years later.
“You can’t treat a disease you don’t know you have,” Stenzel said. “Every STD except one will hurt you, girls.” Stenzel said girls need to draw the line with sexually aggressive boys.
“There will always be boys who don’t care,” she said. “You can’t have love without respect. If you want respect, you have to demand it.” Stenzel will speak 7 p.m. today at the Golden Triangle YMCA in Tavares.