Abstinence only works for the unattractive

Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant at 16 by her met-at-church-boyfriend. She's keeping it. In an interview with OK! Magazine she says that she advocates that people wait to have sex, but she says she obviously cannot comment on it because she's put herself in this situation.

I haven't entirely decided if she's really brave and responsible for keeping the kid (having lots of money probably doesn't hurt) or an idiot for getting pregnant in the first place. Despite all the fertility issues seen on daytime tv, it seems that most women are fertile myrtles. I understand that no form of protection is 100% effective short of sterilization. It's perfectly possible that what has happened to her is just an accident and a malfunction of whatever preventative methods she was using. 

Given what pregnancy has done to her sister, I would have to assume that getting pregnant at 16 wasn't intentional. Every time unexpected pregnancies come into the news, I always think about the status of sex education in this country. I think a lot of people are faced with situations where abstinence only education is inadequate. 

Lynne Spears, Britney's mom was going to write a book about how to raise a daughter, specifically Jamie Lynn, because she was the model child. If a supposedly good and responsible girl could find herself pregnant at 16, clearly abstinence only education isn't ebbing the flow of sexually active teenagers. I think Jamie Lynn is a model for supporting that wholly informative sex-ed isn't a going to make our schools into whore factories.