Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbesvax.turner From: ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Birth control and education - (nf) Message-ID: <120@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 22:13:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbcad.120 Posted: Fri Jul 29 22:13:17 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 06:31:42 EDT Sender: notes@ucbcad.UUCP Organization: UC Berkeley, CAD Group Lines: 19 #R:grkermit:-52400:ucbesvax:7500024:000:613 ucbesvax!turner Jul 29 00:07:00 1983 A similar sex-education program was in effect in the Berkeley public school system in my junior high and high-school days--sex education was *required*. It was called "social living", and included drug education as well--that conjunction of topics was my only real criticism. It had a decided effect on the student pregnancy rate. The mechanism was interesting: since there was no longer any reason NOT to know where those babies came from, and how, the pregnant student (and the boys who got those girls pregnant) were no longer the subjects of much sympathy. Michael Turner ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner