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Bristol Palin just threw cold water on what's supposed to be a joyous occasion ... being pregnant. Palin's in the early stages of her second out of wedlock pregnancy, and this time she's full on grumpy, saying she knows it will be "a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you." Bristol says she's "trying to keep [my] chin up on this one." Sarah Palin's daughter was engaged to U.S. Marine veteran Dakota Meyer, but they broke things off last month. Bristol didn't say if Dakota's the dad. Bristol was full of piss and vinegar, saying,...

Should public school sex education be limited to abstinence only? Yes 21.6% No 78.4% 425 votes

It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. The abstinence-only sex-education programs on which the federal government has been spending around $176 million a year have been shown to have zero effect. That's right: zero. "Abstinence-only" classes in public schools, funded by provisions of the 1996 federal welfare reform law, focus on the message of waiting until marriage. They do not teach about contraception or safe sex. But a national study that tracked 2,000 young people over several years has found no evidence that such classes as currently taught actually increased rates of sexual abstinence. It found that program participants...

Russian Roulette sex, aids and microbicide grease By Michael Vallins Friday, February 9, 2007 Do you recall the AIDs conference here recently? The one where Stephen Lewis and Bill Gates were feverishly championing the future microbicide grease for women to plaster on their private parts before sex to protect themselves against HIV? This was it! As simple as an oil change and a grease job. This was going to solve the problem and we could just go absolutely bonkers and have sex and more sex and, well, everything was going to be wonderful, and even the Toronto hookers came to...

LONDON: Marriage is on the rocks in Britain, with the proportion of unmarried people set to exceed that of married people within 25 years as more men and women opt to live together without constraints, according to government statistics published this week. The proportion of married men is expected to fall from 53 percent in 2003 to 42 percent in 2031, while the percentage of married women will decline from 50 percent to 40 per cent, Britain's Office for National Statistics predicted on Thursday. The "Population Trends" report predicted on the other hand that the number of unmarried couples living...

WASHINGTON - U.S. teen pregnancy and birth rates have plummeted to all-time lows as more teenagers delay sex, abstain from it, use contraception and use it more effectively. Abortions also are down. ADVERTISEMENT The decline, to the lowest teen birth rates since national tallies began in 1940, is a remarkable personal health reform, sharper than U.S. declines in smoking or increases in seat-belt use. Counselors who work with teens cite many factors but give much credit to more cautious and assertive girls. "A lot more of us are making our own sexual decisions. That way, you don't get pushed around...

WASHINGTON - U.S. teen pregnancy and birth rates have plummeted to all-time lows as more teenagers delay sex, abstain from it, use contraception and use it more effectively. Abortions also are down. The decline, to the lowest teen birth rates since national tallies began in 1940, is a remarkable personal health reform, sharper than U.S. declines in smoking or increases in seat-belt use ---------------------------------------------------- That said, the decline in pregnancy among American teenagers is impressive: In 1990, 116 teens out of every thousand aged 15 to 19 got pregnant, according to the CDC. By 2000, just 85 did. More recent...

4Parents.gov is part of a new national public education campaign to provide parents with the information, tools and skills they need to help their teens make the healthiest choices. There is no substitute for caring parents who are involved in their children's lives. If preteens and teens are going to make the choices that will enable them to become healthy adults, they need parents to talk frankly with them about sensitive topics like sex and relationships. Parents who have been reticent to talk with their teens and preteens about these issues now have a new resource in this website. The...

Australia must continue to shun a US-led holy war against AIDS, writes Bill Bowtell. The detection in New York City of a new strain of HIV virus that is highly resistant to anti-retroviral drugs is deeply worrying. If the existence of an HIV supervirus is confirmed by tests now being performed by the HIV authority Dr David Ho and others, then there will be genuine grounds for concern about whether existing HIV containment strategies are working, or need to be radically overhauled to meet the potential threat of a new strain of the virus. These questions are important and must...

From dallasobserver.com Originally published by Dallas Observer Dec 18, 2003 ©2003 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved. No Trespassing When teens vow not to have sex, the moral to their story isn't always clearBY LEAH GERCHARIO AND MICHELLE MARTINEZ top:Jim Veneman The virgin diaries: In 1994, top, more than 200,000 True Love Waits commitment cards were displayed at the national mall in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness of the burgeoning teen abstinence movement. Since then, TLW estimates more than a million teens have signed such pledge cards; left, pledge drives like this one two years later at the Georgia Dome...

From dallasobserver.com Originally published by Dallas Observer Dec 18, 2003 ©2003 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved. No Trespassing When teens vow not to have sex, the moral to their story isn't always clear BY LEAH GERCHARIO AND MICHELLE MARTINEZ top:Jim Veneman The virgin diaries: In 1994, top, more than 200,000 True Love Waits commitment cards were displayed at the national mall in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness of the burgeoning teen abstinence movement. Since then, TLW estimates more than a million teens have signed such pledge cards; left, pledge drives like this one two years later at the Georgia...

NBC KCRA-3 just gave the most biased report on proposed sex-ed changes in the SJUSD. They said it was approved by committee, and did NOT mention there were objections by two committee members and growing dissent from parents in the district. EVERYONE they showed in the interview, from adults to STUDENTS, gave approval for teaching explicit condom use. I've never seen a more biased report. They interviewed Deidre Powell-- SJUSD public affairs, who said kids need this. Kids need a fair abstinance education-- not the Making Safer Choices full-of holes theory that Planned Parenthood and its shadow organizations foist on...

<p>A San Juan district proposal to add lessons on condoms in high schools angers some. The San Juan Unified School District's curriculum and standards committee voted to adopt material from a sex education textbook despite the objections of some parents who felt it is too explicit.</p>