# Are conservatives or progressives more likely to buy their child birth control at age 13?

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**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-conservatives-or-progressives-more-likely-to-buy-their-child-birth-control-at-age-13/919541 "2020-09-01T18:30:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-conservatives-or-progressives-more-likely-to-buy-their-child-birth-control-at-age-13/919541/27 "2021-01-18T01:25:40Z")

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> [@Are Kellyanne and George Conway declaring a truce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-kellyanne-and-george-conway-declaring-a-truce/918848/260):
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> The best way to keep your thirteen year old from being sexually active is to raise them with good values and self-esteem from ages 0 - 13. There is no logical connection between holding progressive values and being incapable of, or unlikely to, do that.

@CairoCarol, I don’t know if you have kids or not. I agree that children should be raised with good values (whatever that means to you) and self-esteem. However, children have a way of subverting their parents’ idea of how they are supposed to turn out. Some 13-year-old girls become sexually active without having bad values or poor self-esteem. So then what do you do?

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