With reproductive health and sex ed being part of our public school curriculum it does happen but, at no where near the rate of the US. The social conservative here fight it tooth and nail but, for even a christain school public funding of the school requires following the curriculum of Alberta Education. One observation I have made is that christian schools and public schools in christian areas have a higher rate of teen pregnancy than other public schools.

Well it is Texas, Know well for their incredible stupidity.

Ever since Texas started teaching abstinence only sex ed classes (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) their VD and pregnancy rates have gone through the roof. This is an issue anywhere they teach kids to just 'not have sex' by not instruction their students how to properly have safe sex.

Sadly I haven't the foggiest idea. In general I would guess no just because of the demographic of the school district but I don't know.

After Thailand's recent urban westernization with US movies and music, the teen pregnancy rate rose steeply, but government intervention in the past decade has greatly reduced births.

Abortion in Thailand is illegal and the society is very conservative, with most people living in extended families, so teen pregnancy wasn't previously a big problem.

When I first started teaching at a small class B high school in Michigan, in 1986, the pregnant and mothers with a child would go to the cafeteria to eat and back to their special segregated classroom before the rest of the students. I liked that number as the Chinese army, marching four abreast into the sea (there would be no ending for it). In contrast, in 1956 when I was in the sixth grade, there was a sophomore at the high school (across town from my school) that became pregnant. In a short time, everyone in our class knew her name and the name of the father. She seemed to be the ONLY out-of-wedlock girl that anyone knew about in our town of just unter 10,000. Unlike the school where I taught in '86...there were MANY.

My first reaction was to look at it from the other angle: at least these students are continuing their education.

Their offspring...

Teen pregnancy, treated in our time as a problem, is nothing new. It is in fact more the rule than the exception in human history and Nature. What IS the exception, of late, is designating young adults as children until they reach the first day of their nineteenth year.

Along with many other unnatural notions deriving from a Patriarchal system so full of itself that it deigns to dictate to Nature, delayed adulthood is exacting a terrible societal price.

In some areas , the schools issue realistic dolls , to give teens a taste of parenthood , before they get pregnant on their own . Are you sure these weren't the dolls ?

Hmmm. Good question.

To me, it was more a problem when I was a kid. Meaning that we sent the girls away and shamed them.

A teacher told me that she's known girls that have planned out their lives to get the maximum benefits from their children. To me, that is the problem. That girls think their best option in life is bearing children.

That's where we are failing.

Why are you assuming it is a problem? Perhaps an issue maybe.