Vita Karklina, director of a youth health center in Ogre, remembers one case last year when a distraught 16-year-old girl asked her why she was pregnant. The girl had been told by some would-be Romeo that if she had sex after menstruation, she would not conceive.Unfortunately, Karklina says the case is not that rare; deception among sexually naive youngsters is all too common."Frequently young people come the day after sex and ask if they are pregnant," explains Karklina, a trained family therapist.Because sex education is not a mandatory subject in Latvian schools, few children are familia...
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