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About one-third of teen girls become pregnant at least once by age 20 and fully half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned.  Not too good

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Aug 26 2009

starsGreek Is Back!

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Don't miss the season premiere of the hit ABC Family original series "Greek" on Monday at 9pm/8c. It's a look at the lives and relationships of college kids - funny, dramatic, and full of great characters. The National Campaign is working with the show, so look around their website and stay tuned for a PSA later this season.

Need to catch up before the premiere? Watch the Cram Session videos and relive the previous seasons of "Greek."

Aug 05 2009

starsGo Back 2 School With Tom Joyner

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Even though it still feels like we're smack in the middle of summer, lots of teens and 20-somethings are gearing up to head back to school in a few short weeks. Whether it's another year of high school, the first college experience, or the last year of formal schooling, we're hoping that students anticipating the excitement of new friends and new experiences will add one more thing to the list: doing whatever it takes not to let an unplanned pregnancy sideline their education.

On August 7, in 12 cities nationwide, radio personality Tom Joyner will launch his annual Back2School events to rally support for education -- especially for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Now is a good time to consider what Tom Joyner and his 10 million loyal listeners already know: that parenthood is not only one of the main reasons teen girls drop out of school, unplanned pregnancy can also be one of the fastest ways to derail your college plans. The fact is that eight in ten 20-somethings agree that pregnancy is something that should be planned.

So tell us about your plans for the future at sexreally.com. Go to a Back2School event in your community, check out Tom Joyner's Virtual College Fair, and learn more about his efforts here.

Back2School events will be held in the following places:

    1. Cleveland, OH
    2. Columbia, SC
    3. New Haven, CT
    4. Nashville, TN
    5. Philadelphia, PA
    6. Dallas, TX (Event is on Aug. 6th)
    7. Indianapolis, IN
    8. Greenville, SC
    9. Buffalo, NY
    10. Chicago, IL
    11. Milwaukee, WI
    12. Newton, NC

Oct 10 2008

starsSiding With Schalet

Note from the blogkeeper:  This post by Laura Sessions Stepp is in response to yesterday's post by Bill Albert, the subject of which was a Washington Post op-ed by Amy Schalet.

The key phrase here, Bill, is "later teens." I can't imagine parents are offering bedrooms to 14- or 15-year-olds. But older teens? That's a different matter.

By the end of high school, a sizable majority of American teens are having sex. Is a pal's basement a better place than home? How about the back of a car? Or the Econo Lodge? We Americans spend too much time thinking about how to prevent young people from having sex (with mixed results at best) and not enough time helping them think about how, when the time comes, they can do it safely and in a loving relationship. I think Schalet is correct: Sleepovers at home, smartly handled by parents and teens, could encourage conversations that young people badly need before they go to college. And once they get to college, give them something to remember when they're tempted to sleep in some stranger's bed.