For Christ's sake, my parents married at 25 and 23. And my father had done a stint in the Air Force, and my mother had been a self-supporting nurse for three years. My sister had a baby at 19, and raised her very well.

Look, I just quoted that bit of neuroscience in a discussion of decision-making about college, but if we have learned anything from the disaster of abstinence -only education, it's that denying that older teens are sexual beings is just plain stupid, and we need to arm them with more than "don't," whatever the reason. And wow, does it weird me out to see this bananas anti rhetoric out in real situations .