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Abstinence-only education is being blamed for a rise in teen pregnancy. But is that the only culprit?
  • It isn't that kids don't know how to use condoms.

    It's that the abstinence-only crowd has repeatedly told them that condoms are hopelessly ineffective. The people pushing this message think it will scare kids out of having sex. What it accomplishes instead is to convince them that they might as well not bother with condoms.