In the Uk, over 75% of all the boys in borstals (young offenders institutes), who are all under 21, are parents. Often they are fathers to more than one child, with more than one partner. A few years ago, a study on those same boys discovered that about 80% of them were the children of teenaged mothers. Although the prison services have been tasked with providing some forms of education to these prisoners, to include life's skills classes, teaching them about birth control might be just a bit like shutting the barn door after the cows have gotten out.
Perhaps, though, this group is the very best example of just who - and who is not - being reached by publicly funded sex education; they aren't getting it and they are responsible for creating yet another generation that will consist of some of the most deprived - emotionally, physically, and mentally - people for many many generations, perhaps in our history. American jails are not that different, with the bulk of its prisoners black, poor, and under 30 - and parents.
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