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Recently, I have been contacted by my change agents. FINALLY THEY HAVE RESPONDED! One, Ms. Judith, seems more interested in helping than the other so I think I'm going to stick with her. She gave me a few really good informational sources. 

I have recently read an article about a young woman who became pregnant in her first year of college. She chose to keep the baby and explains how having a baby is not as easy as it looks. All of her social time is gone, and  most of her money goes to her baby. I think if more teenage girls knew what it was like to actually have a baby then they would think twice about unprotected sex. Those girls who think that is cool to have a baby, or those girls that go on Maury talking about they are trying to get pregnant really need to do some research. It is not at all easy to have a baby. Watching my nephew during spring break was proof enough for me. I had him all day for the whole week and it was not easy. The young lady in this article also explains how her figure had gone. She couldn't even fit her old clothes anymore. True Tales of a Teen Mom by Elisa Klein.

I have also found that most states have rejected funding for "abstinence-only"  education. Abstinence-only education is not educating teenagers on the dangers of having sex and the diseases you can catch, but telling them not to have sex at all until marriage. The article, "Preventing Teen Pregnancy:What Works" by Erica Barnett, says, "Studies have shown that abstinence-only education does virtually nothing to prevent kids from having sex; the most recent one, released in April 2007, revealed that about half of all kids in both comprehensive and abstinence-only sex education programs had had sex by the end of the study period, and more than a third of both groups had had two or more partners. The only noticeable difference between the groups was that the abstinence-only group used birth control less frequently."