Well, in this day and age, it must be hard to raise a child, no matter what the sex is.  Jeez, just hearing about the girls who supposedly might have made a pregnancy pact with eachother in a recent story in the news, and this one, it’s hard to believe that some kids really do stay abstinent until they at least reach age 20, or actually feel ready to deal with the repercussions of sexual activity.

In a PA school district called the Delaware Valley district, it seems the STD’s, or sexually transmitted diseases, have run rampant and are infecting a high percentage of their students.  Not only that, when surveyed, many as young as twelve years old in this district admitted they were sexually active.  I wasn’t even thinking about sex that much when I was twelve, and here now kids are already well into their sexual activity many times at that age!

The percentage is high in this particular PA district, about ten percent of them are infected with some sort of STD, most of them being HPV, which is actually a very common virus that is sexually transmitted, and is closely linked to the development of cervical cancer in women if left untreated and if of a particularly virulent strain or of a certain specific strain.

And it just begins there.  One student in this district actually tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and over twenty young ladies have tested positive for pregnancy.  I’m just wondering why these young people don’t really think it’s necessary to at least practice safe sex if they are going to be fooling around in the first place.  I remember when I was young, being in that situation would have been the worst, most devastating thing to happen to me. 

At such an early age, you really limit your opportunities by getting pregnant or getting someone pregnant, and the course of your life is forever changed.  It’s before life even starts, and you’ve already put yourself behind the gun.  I know abstinence education doesn’t work well, but there’s gotta be a way to really get that message into kid’s heads.