Do the youth still need parental guidance?

In one of the courses I enrolled in college, I was once part of a group assigned to make a documentary film on pre-marital sex and its attendant problem, teenage pregnancy. I hated my teacher for that because filmmaking, or so I thought, is reserved only for MassComm students. What has an education student got to do with filmmaking? But the hate was supplanted by appreciation, for the exercise gave me an opportunity to take a glimpse of the life of a teenage mother.

If there’s anything I learned from the documentary we made, even though it’s amateurish by any acceptable standards, it is this: Sex is a make or break experience—make because it can give instant euphoria; break because it can wreak endless havoc especially to young people who are adventurous and in constant search for excitement.

Do most of the youth know it?