Writing Aspirations: Good grief, what are the young doing?

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Good grief, what are the young doing?

Taken from an article today:

"There has been a "disturbing" increase in STIs -- over the last 12 years, chlamydia and HIV are up 300 percent and syphilis 2,000 percent."

Is it me or is that just a frightening bit of news?

Labels: News, Parenting, Scary News

4 Comments:

Susan Helene Gottfried said...: Nope, not you.

Especially that syphilis stat. Whoa.; 5:02 PM
Erica Ridley said...: Yikes, super scary!!!; 11:23 PM
Naomi said...: Sadly, that doesn't especially surprise me. I wish it did.; 4:11 AM
Unknown said...: It makes me scared to be a parent to be honest. I'm going to start sex ed early with my kids...like now.

*shudder*; 11:10 AM