Sex education for 20-somethings -- baltimoresun.com

Argh!!! And hurrah for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and to Planned Parenthood, for making accurate reproductive health information available to everyone who seeks it.

Sex education for 20-somethings -- baltimoresun.com:

For parents like me, who hoped that a child's 21st birthday meant we could finally put our feet up on the coffee table, this is alarming news:

New research shows that our 20-somethings don't want to have a child at this time in their lives, but they aren't doing much to prevent it. And the result is that among unmarried women in their 20s, 7 of 10 pregnancies are unplanned. Seventy percent.

...We've been so busy trying to prevent our teens from having sex before they are emotionally ready and issuing dire warnings about the blighted future of a child born to them that we're unaware of how ignorant and ambivalent our clearly-not-very-grown-up children are about sex and birth control.

...Think about it. If you don't know how birth control works and you don't believe it is going to work and you think it might kill you and you think it is all in the hands of the fates anyway, how likely are you to use it?

And if you aren't really sure under what circumstances you want to have a child and if it would be sort of OK if it just happened, how likely are you to do the serious thinking required before taking this huge, family-forming step?