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I think you’ll get an “A.”

I think that your implied premise is a bit faulty: that people, particularly young people, approach sexual behaviour logically and carefully weigh the consequences of their actions. I don’t think so. While you can teach people to behave morally and can teach them about the repercussions of their actions, in the long term it’s darn difficult to keep people away from behavior that is quite pleasurable.

I think we need to remember that the problem isn’t sex, it’s sex outside the context of marriage without acceptance of the risks and consequences arising from it.

Several FReepers have been making a point that I at first found peculiar, but have since found more logical: young adults need to marry earlier and have children earlier. I don’t think it’s realistic to expect young, hormonally charged people to abstain until they’re in their late 20s when the average age where children lose their virginity in the U.S. is (arguably) somewhere around 15.