What can we do to stop teenage pregnancy, and reduce # of battered women in the US. How can we live purposeful

1. Teach kids that instant gratification isn't all it's cracked up to be.





2. Teach teens (of BOTH sexes) that hormones shouldn't control their lives.





3. Teach girls that they don't need a guy to be happy. If you can't be happy when you're single, chances are you won't be too happy with a partner either. (This will help solve both problems.)





4. Get rid of all the stupid crap on TV and other media outlets that glorifies sex as being the coolest thing in the world. Yes, ';sex sells';, but it's exactly that mentality that causes problems like this. Since when did money get to be more important than people's sanity and even lives?





5. Pass more laws that punish men if they abuse their women. And actually *enforce* them, instead of just giving the guys a slap on the wrist. Maybe we need a list of abusive men, like we have lists of child molesters.





I doubt most of these will get done on a large enough scale during my lifetime, but *some* efforts should be made at least.What can we do to stop teenage pregnancy, and reduce # of battered women in the US. How can we live purposeful
I say get rid of welfare checks...that will drop teenage pregnacy by %26gt;75% in one year.

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What can we do to stop teenage pregnancy, and reduce # of battered women in the US. How can we live purposeful
you and all your punk friends need to quit ';poking'; all your girlfriends.and then getting mad and beating them up .take responsibility for your actions.
Kill all the men.
From the answers I see here; Sounds like the world of the future is going to be dull, uptight, and Victorian, and ignorant.
Manditory sterilization of all 12 year olds. Can't help you with the battered woman bit, but they'd be more free to leave a situation if every community had some sort of shelter.
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you cant stop some thing that they want to do they know they can get pregnant they aren't stupid just young.The battered women have to decide for them self's if they want it to stop i know cause i was one of them years ago.its hard but can be done if they just talk to another who has gone threw it also.As for living purposeful not sure what you mean
Education. We as parents and techers need to educate our kids, be open and honest with them about these issues. Education is so very important. Kids need to know that it's ok to say no and that they have options. They also need to know that there is help in preventing pregnancy and domestic violence.
Men must begin to live for God instead of their hormones. Men must learn to take responsibility for their lives and their actions. A woman act around a man, the way she wants to be treated, and I assume that the majority of them do not want to be looked upon and treated as whores and do not want to be beat up. There is a lack of respect on both sides of the fence. God never intended that a woman be viewed as property of her husband, nor did he intend that the woman should be head of the household. Ungodly attitudes lead to ungodly behavior and this is the real problem---God is not with the whore mongers or the whores. If he were, then they would not be whore mongers or whores. We can only live purposeful lives through Jesus Christ. If you are without Christ in your life, then I have just one question for you: How is life working out for you? Jesus loves the ungodly, but he does love ungodliness. He wants people to respect one another, but they cannot do that without embracing him first.