New UN projections forecast that world population will hit nearly 11 billion people by 2100, an unsettling prospect that reflects a collective failure to provide women around the world with safe, effective ways to avoid pregnancies they don't intend or want.
Kikuyu women may thus be much keener in looking for ways to avoid pregnancies that they are not well-prepared for [ 49, 50].
Those favoring the change said that teenagers are going to have unprotected sex in any case and needed a safe way to avoid pregnancy.
In a recent survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which receives financing from Planned Parenthood, about 23percentt of teachers said they taught abstinence as the only way to avoid pregnancy and venereal diseases, up from 2percentt in 1988.
Such programs, which account for the single largest federal effort in sex education, teach that the only reliable way to avoid pregnancy and disease is to remain chaste until marriage.
By 1999, nearly one in four public school teachers said they taught about abstaining from sex until marriage as the only way to avoid pregnancy and disease, up from 1 in 50 in 1988.
A recent survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute found an elevenfold increase since 1988 among secondary school teachers who say they do not discuss any method other than abstinence as a way to avoid pregnancy.
Nationally, a recent survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the nonprofit organization that focuses on sexual and reproductive health, found that 23percentt of secondary-school teachers said they did not discuss any method other than abstinence as a way to avoid pregnancy, up from just 2percentt in 1988.
(As of 2014, most schools still preach abstinence as the best way to avoid pregnancy and STD transmission. And only 35percentt of classes teach students how to correctly use a condom, according to the Guttmacher Institute).
The only 100% safe way to avoid pregnancy is to not have sex, so you shouldn't feel stupid for not wanting to go through with something.
