Poll: Most OK Birth Control for Schools

November 1, 2007 By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Poll: Most OK Birth Control for Schools (AP)

Danielle Kessenger holds her 3-year-old daughter, Emma, Oct. 31, 2007 in Jacksonville, Fla. People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed. "Kids are kids," said Kessenger, 39, a mother of three young children from Jacksonville, Fla., who supports providing contraceptives to those who request them. "I was a teenager once and parents don't know everything, though we think we do." (AP Photo/Oscar Sosa)

(AP) -- People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.



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