State Film to Promote Chastity
You belittle Gov. George Deukmejian’s efforts to educate adolescents about the problems sexual intercourse can cause them. Pregnancy is only one of the problems.
Why not credit teen-agers with having some sense and give them reasons abstinence is a good idea? Instead the tone of your editorial is teen-agers won’t stop having sex, so why try? Adolescents often live up or down to the expectations one has for them.
VERA CONNERS
Laguna Niguel
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