Teenage Pregnancy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7136196.stm

I came across this article today while reading the news about a 15 year old girl who became pregnant at age 13 and chose to have the baby. Although teenage pregnancy rates have been dropping in the past few years, it's still shocking to hear a story like this. When I hear a story like this, I try to remember what I was like at 13. When I was 13, I was just going through puberty and had no interest in even having a boyfriend never mind committing to doing something so drastic and potentially physically/emotionally damaging as having sex. I wonder why these girls are interested in sex at this age and who is to blame for their behavior. Is it lack of sex ed in school, being molested at a young age (which is often the answer for many girls), or is it lack of parental attention and teaching. That's another frightening idea. Most parents who have a 13 year old girl (or boy) will most likely talk to their child about puberty, but how many of them will find it necessary to talk to them about condoms or abortions? Is this something parents need to do now? Will I need to, when/if I have a child some day, talk to my 10 year old about sex just to make her/him prepared for it? Our generation has truly brought about a death of innocence and it scares me to think about what the world might be like 10 or 20 years from now.