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From: Tattercoat at aol.com <Tattercoat>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:42:58 EDT
Dotti Enderle writes "...economic breakdown, intelligence level, etc. These factors do make a difference in statistics." Of course they do, but isn't that also a way of distancing ourselves, saying these aren't "our" kids? All kids are ours, the innocent and those careening--or shoved--into premature adulthood.
The study that these stats are based on is the subject of a three part series on NPR. This morning NPR interviewed 8th graders about sexual activity. Those kids said it was a particular subgroup who were not involved in academics who were more sexually active. However, an interesting thing that came out was that the girls they knew who got pregnant all had much older boyriends, some out of high school. There's child exploitation going on here, too, I think.
What perspective does a thirteen year old have on the attention her budding sexuality brings her? Can books help? What do we have in our collections--or want for our collections--that might shed some light here for young teens? Is this part of the thirst for edgy YA books? Maybe books like Beatrice Sparks' TREACHEROUS LOVE are well worth the shelf space.
Carolyn Lehman Humboldt State University
Received on Tue 20 May 2003 10:42:58 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:42:58 EDT
Dotti Enderle writes "...economic breakdown, intelligence level, etc. These factors do make a difference in statistics." Of course they do, but isn't that also a way of distancing ourselves, saying these aren't "our" kids? All kids are ours, the innocent and those careening--or shoved--into premature adulthood.
The study that these stats are based on is the subject of a three part series on NPR. This morning NPR interviewed 8th graders about sexual activity. Those kids said it was a particular subgroup who were not involved in academics who were more sexually active. However, an interesting thing that came out was that the girls they knew who got pregnant all had much older boyriends, some out of high school. There's child exploitation going on here, too, I think.
What perspective does a thirteen year old have on the attention her budding sexuality brings her? Can books help? What do we have in our collections--or want for our collections--that might shed some light here for young teens? Is this part of the thirst for edgy YA books? Maybe books like Beatrice Sparks' TREACHEROUS LOVE are well worth the shelf space.
Carolyn Lehman Humboldt State University
Received on Tue 20 May 2003 10:42:58 AM CDT
