Until the 1960’s, teen pregnancy wasn’t considered a problem in the U.S. Teen pregnancy and a soaring teen birth rate became a crisis in 1991. The U.S. had one of the highest teen birth rates in the industrialized world. Locally, about two-thirds of teens are sexually active by the age of eighteen, according to health department surveys. Teenage pregnancy resulted to lower educational levels, higher rates of poverty and other poorer life outcomes in children of teenage mothers. Sex education has been changing for the past couple of years. Still, there isn’t enough sex education, and it doesn’t start early enough, said an advocate, Rick Dunn, co-chair of Clarke County’s Adolescent Health Task Force, which is starting up a peer educator program to allow teens to hear about the issues from children their own age. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sex education in the United States was strongly informed by Victorian values. Victorian values controlled American social life for much of the 19th century. Considering on a national level on what to teach children about sex in schools existed as early as 1912. By 1940, the U.S. Public Health Service had made a strong statement about the importance of sex education in schools. This statement was the result of concern over the spread of sexually transmitted diseases related with soldiers and sailors when the first and second world wars. In the 1950s, the American Medical Association worked with the National Education Association to open up a series of pamphlets that became the basis of most school-based sex education programs. By 1988, over ninety percent of all U.S. schools put forward some sex education programs. In the early 1990s, Family Connection helped bring together school, health, and even police and justice officials to reduce teen pregnancy.