1. The authors of the viewpoints in this chapter discuss four different methods for preventing teenage pregnancy. Which methods do you feel would help reduce teenage pregnancy? Which would be ineffective? Support your answers with references to the viewpoints.

2. Maggie Gallagher maintains that parents can successfully encourage teenagers to abstain from sex. M. Jocelyn Elders, on the other hand, contends that most teens have sex and therefore need to be educated about preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Which argument do you find more convincing, and why? Is it inevitable that teenagers will have sex? Why or why not"

3. Ralph deToledano argues that the enforcement of statutory rape laws can reduce teen pregnancy. Catherine Elton disagrees. How do these authors view relationships between adult males and teenage girls? How do their differing views about these relationships influence their opinions about enforcing statutory rape laws"