Birth control, abortion and unwanted pregnancies.

[Benton]

I was lucky. My first relationship was 12, she was 13 or 14. The lucky part was I had an older brother who was dating a girl smart enough to drive me to the health department and make me ask for condoms. Life could have been a Lot different. The bad part is at the time, Kentucky had the the highest or second highest unwed teenage pregnancy rate in the country. Mainly from the abstinence only education. Even in high school the health classes avoided the subject. That only changed in my district about 5 years ago when a teacher at the high school (who had a child when she was 15) went around the school board and started a media campaign to change lesson plans and start high schoolers talking about things.