Tuesday, January 7,1997         CONDOM DISTRIBUTION IN SCHOOLS CONDONES PROMISCUITY AND INCREASES TEEN PREGNANCIES A majority of high schools in the United States do not distribute condoms to students. Those few schools that do provide condoms state their reason that in doing so, they will safely decrease the number of teen pregnancies and cases of sexually transmitted diseases. But if students are exposed to condom distribution, they will get the idea that premarital sex is okay, and …showed first 75 words of 660 total…

…showed last 75 words of 660 total…example, the San Marcos Junior High in San Marcos, California, adopted an abstinence-only program developed by Teen-Aid. The curriculum dropped the school's pregnancy rate from 147 to 20 within a two-year period. America faces a long road ahead of them in fighting disease and poverty. The battle may never be won, but our children, the future leaders of the United States, need to be set on the right path before we can begin our road to victory.