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Originally Posted by Nemo
I'll take a crack at this. In no particular order:
1. Wide availability of birth control. This includes subsidizing it for the poor and teaching students about birth control in sex education.
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And really, actual sex ed would go a very long way toward solving some problems. Availability does nothing if they don't know how to use them properly, and many states still preach abstinence-only which has been proven by study after study after study to be either fruitless at best or counterproductive at worst.
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5. Create better curriculum, including rethinking the subjects we teach in school.
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This is a huge problem. When I took precalculus as a sophomore, we were given a copy of the unit circle and told to memorize it. We never learned how exactly the values were calculated and why it works the way it does. Fast forward 6 months and I took it again at the Community College, because despite having gotten an A in the class I knew I didn't understand it well enough. I learned more in the first 2 weeks of 50 minutes 3 days a week than I did in the first month of highschool precal, because I was actually taught the specific triangles the make up the unit circle. "Teaching to the test" became increasingly widespread after No Child Left Behind, and it's not a good thing. There needs to be a much larger focus on teaching how math works instead of how answers magically appear if you do X Y and Z.
The same applies to other subjects like science. A lot of biology teachers only teach how evolution happens, not why it happens, and not why 90% of what their parents/pastors/politicians tell them about evolution is wrong. A lot of the very basic stuff like "what is a theory" is being skimped on.