64 of Timken's 490 female students — 13 percent — are pregnant.The statistic at the school in the heart of this old steel city contrasts with a decade of declining teen pregnancy rates nationwide
Joanne Hinton, whose 16-year-old daughter, Raechel Hinton, is eight months pregnant, said she believes the school's abstinence-based sex education program isn't enough.
"It's time to take the blinders off and realize that these kids are having sex," she said. "Obviously, abstinence is not working. If we have to, just give them condoms."
Abstinence-based programs have been growing nationwide at schools over the past few years.
In Ohio, the Bush's administration and the state's health department have awarded $32 million in grants to Ohio agencies for abstinence education since 2001.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/09/01/national/a114212D46.DTL
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