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Subject: Re: Re: Birth control and education - (nf)
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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