Retro Report on PBS

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Masud

Deep in Southern Georgia, in a region that has long grappled with the issue of teenage pregnancy, sits the small town of Cairo. For the past few years, Daphne Melissa McClendon has been teaching sex education at the high school. We're gonna talk about contraception, okay? Ways to prevent pregnancy. Question, why do men need that information? At the beginning it was difficult for me. I did grapple with, you know, I don't know that this is what I need to be doing, because I did feel like, hey, I'm a Christian. I don't know that I believe in giving this kind of information out. And I also didn't want them to think that I was saying, hey, it's okay to have sex.