Agreed.  My parents were 40 and 41 when I was born.  People would think pne of my sisters (12 and 10years older than me) was my mother, and my parents were my grandparents.  I love it.  Not because of that, of course, but my parents were slightly less strict with me (far youngest child), and had more money to support me (they were able to pay for my college, but wouldn’t have been able to fund my sisters; luckily, she got a scholarship).  And it’s even cooler now (I’m 25), because my sisters are like cool aunts; they are  older than me enough to give me wise advise, without having to go to my parents, who probably would understand me less.  It’s a very unique experience.  Also, all the stories about people being oh so sad with older parents because they die earlier, need to be taken care of etc.  However, that can happen to anyone!  I happen to be lucky, as my grandmother is 100 years old, and she’s not onlyt still alive, but also living by herself and driving (she takes the driveres test every year- she parks better than I do).  However, my uncle has alzheimers, and he’s in his 60’s.  People at any age can die, and people at any age can get sick.  It’s pretty much the luck of the draw. Yes, it’s a higher percentage with older people, but hey, that’s life, and shouldn’t stop a happy couple IMO.

However, I think Margo was a little harsh to the  Med school student.  Yes, she called her sister knocked up, and that’s kind of a harsh term, but I understand, because she’s angry that her sister keeps attacking her lifestyle; it’s grating and mean to do for someone following her dream. The med school student doesn’t seem to be telling her sister to give up her kids for adoption and come join her at med school.  The point is who’s attacking who.  She says she goes home and her sister dogs her about not having kids and settling down.  That’s absolutely ridiculous.  It’s fine she decided to do that with her life, but I think there is definitely a smaller percentage of people for whom that works (have children young and single).  Her pre-med sister is obviously not one of them.  Let’s say the med school girl does brag to her sister about how lovely her life is, etc.  Then the sister needs to ask her to stop; not tell her to have kids.  That’s just irresponsible. Quite frankly,  I think anyone telling anyone of any age that they need to settle down and have kids is stupid, no matter who you are or who they are.  Forcing people to do stuff like that is what gives us all the crappy parents in the world.

I’m quite dissapointed this site decided to run this article.  "Rainbowing" is not only a very old story, but has proven to be false (or, at least, far from ordinary); it’s an urban legend.  See here http://www.cracked.com/article_17040_6-most-insane-moral-panics-in-ameri… and here http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/fashion/thursdaystyles/30rainbow.html .  Is it possible it has happened?  Yes. Is it common or likely to be common?  Highly unlikely.  It looks like it started because some guy wrote a book to warn against oral sex (see NY times article).

The bracelets thing is no longer in vogue, but it is true that middle school girls used to wear those colored bracelets.  However, after talking to a lot of middle school girls at that time, many didn’t even know that’s what they represented, and most of the other girls were just pretending they would do it (and had no real intention of doing it).  Sad they would pretend something like that, but hey, they are middle school girls.

However, this does not change the fact that teen and preteen sexuality is a problem, but it would be better to do a story based on actual statistics, rather than sensationalized stories of urban myths.

Try this: "According to the 1995 National Survey of Adolescent Males, released in 2000, about half of boys aged 15 to 19 had received oral sex from a girl, and slightly more than a third had performed it."