Used to be in Pa. you could get birth control without parental consent, I think it works that way in most states now. I know they approved the morning after pill in NY in a few high schools to be given away by the school nurse without parental consent.
I think they are still fighting to make it available over the counter, which I feel it should be.
I was a 13 yr old from hell...by 14 I was having sex, drinking cheap wine, and inhaling frequently. I never left birth control to chance, didn't get drunk or high around/with people I didn't trust...didn't place myself in group situations I couldn't get out of... so I guess I was at least a little responsible with my irresponsible decisions.
There was a girl at my school who was with a 38-40 yr old man, the whole town knew, as did her mother...my dad used to mutter "pervert" everytime he saw him. She was 14 when they started dating, she was poor, bi-racial, and didn't do well in school. He had a construction business, his own house, a big ass Lincoln, and a cell phone (which in the early 80's was a BIG deal). The "pervert" got her to stop skipping school, picked her up every day and drove her to school in the stinking Lincoln, bought her new clothes, and took her everywhere...out to eat, carnivals, rode her around with her girlfriends shopping... I remember him spending over $200 at a carnival trying to win her a stuffed bear. I think she was 17 when she got pregnant and married him. Many of her friends ended up like a lot of the girls there...pregnant, poor, drop-outs, living on a welfare check in a shitty apartment, or the trailer court. I'd like to think her life turned out a little better.