There are any number of reasons why our teens have gotten lazy about birth control, but Mr. Albert believes the No. 1 reason is that teen guys, who never felt like teen pregnancy was their problem anyway, are not nearly as concerned about contracting HIV as they might have been before so many people stopped dying from it.
In addition, teen pregnancy has been pushed to the back burner by other, more high-profile health causes, such as childhood obesity, which has the outspoken attention of first lady Michelle Obama.
But if it is up to Bill Albert and the National Campaign to find a way to bring the spotlight back to the upward creep of teen pregnancies numbers, it is up to parents - middle-class, intact, we're-doing-it-right parents - to recognize that teen pregnancy is not somebody else's problem.
