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Sex. There it is. Get all the giggling out now because we have some grown up stuff to talk about. I had occasion to consider the issue of sex and teens when I read the story about local anti-abortion activist Terry Palmquist being upset that someone at the Democrats’ booth at the Kern County Fair allegedly gave a condom to her teenage son. There was much hoopla over whether this was an appropriate thing to hand out at a “family” event, but that’s not what interested me. I wondered where our numbers stood. We used to be No. 1 in the state for teen births and pretty high for sexually transmitted diseases among teens as well. (Not exactly the image civic boosters had in mind with “Bakersfield: Life as it should be.”) These days teen birth rates are way down, following national and statewide trends. Locally, we’ve gone from 101.5 births per 1,000 population to girls aged 15 to 19 in 1990; to 61 births per 1,000 population...
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