[0605] Teenage Pregnancy
└ posted on Thursday, 7 August 2014, by Novil
- Caption: Sandra and Woo characters on avoiding teenage pregnancy.
- Richard: The 28-pill packet contains seven placebo pills. This way, you automatically remember when to begin the next packet.
- Lily: Can a 13-year-old female even have kits still?
- Woo: Very doubtful.
- Larisa: Don’t be irresponsible, Landon! If we wait another month, you’ll knock up a teenage girl!
- Ye Thuza: If you get Sandra pregnant before she’s finished high school, I’ll separate your head from your body.
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![[0605] Teenage Pregnancy](/comics/2014-08-07-0605-teenage-pregnancy.png "[0605] Teenage Pregnancy")
Re: Panel 4
Which head?
aparajeet wrote:
Actually male rape can be proven, but only circumstantially and it has a very low conviction rate. For example, if a woman pursues a man publicly and he rejects her repeatedly in public, and it can later be proven that she raped him against his will using the presence of DNA along with eyewitness testimony that the man was adamant in his rejection of her advances, can SOMETIMES persuade a jury.
All the woman really has to do though is counter-claim he raped her and he will go directly to jail. People will justify it by saying that he was just trying to discredit her rape claim by filing one himself. Sad but true.
Also in re-reading through these comments I wanted to re-emphasize that abstinence education can and DOES work, but I have reviewed further data that shows that abstinence education as taught by parents have the LOWEST teen pregnancy rate of all youths. The teen pregnancy rate among parents who refuse state-taught sex-ed classes and then teach their children abstinence education based on the family’s moral, ethical, and religious ideals have the highest success rate of avoiding teen pregnancy in the US… less than 15 pregnancies per 1,000 population. (almost a third of the national average)
What the state fails at the home can accomplish with much a better success rate and without giving in to the idea that “they’re gonna do it anyway, might as well be safe about it” which is a MORAL judgement that should be left to parents to determine for their children.
One need no further proof of the abject failure of sex-ed classes then to look at the blatantly ignorant and baffled posters in this comment section that couldn’t understand how simple birth control pills work.
(addendum)
Regarding the study I referenced above, in the interest of fairness I should disclose the sample size of the study was only 1500 students over mostly western states with already low teen pregnancy rates and fully half of those reporting were home-schooled. (and thus by definition “forego state-sponsored sex-ed classes”)
Keeping it honest. ;^)
The best thing in Sandra and Woo comics is that they don’t live in magical fantasy world where teenagers have no in in sex.
I never understood this over-reliance on The Pill. It fucks up your hormones, after all. And my S.O. can’t use it, for medical reasons.
And I’ve seen documentaries that it has quite the negative effects statistically speaking, on stuff like relationships.
Panel 4: That works quite well. It would have made me careful.