Time to talk about sex and end the cycle of ignorance among teenagers


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Chester is the fourth generation in her family to become a teen mother as she was never given any sex education. — Photos: TNS

J.R. Chester got pregnant the summer before her senior year of high school.

A bright student with good grades, she gave birth, graduated and was pregnant again when she arrived at college that fall.

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