Oy:

Kristen Phillips says her sex education came from the real world, not the classroom. By the time she got abstinence-based education at school, she already was a mother. Phillips, 19, had her son, Elijah, when she was 17 and a junior at Petal High School.... Phillips said sex education should be about more than abstinence.

So... not only didn't Phillips get comprehensive sex education, she didn't even get abstinence-only sex "education" until after she was already a mother—and she didn't get any of that lousy, inadequate, ineffectual, misleading, Jesus-freakery-masquarading-as-sex-education sex "ed" until she was seventeen years old. Most teenagers become sexually active long before age 17. So, hey, maybe these two details—no sex education until junior year, and then it's abstinence-only sex "education"—help to explain why Mississippi has the highest teen-pregnancy rate in the country. And this detail probably isn't helping either:

Under current law, school districts are not mandated to teach comprehensive sex education or abstinence. However, districts do have the option to teach abstinence. If districts want to teach more than abstinence, they must receive school board approval.