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One Life to Live and ABC Team Up To Prevent Pregnancy! Tuesday, March 11 2008

Fans have been outraged by the recent One Life to Live storyline where young couple Starr Manning (Kristen Alderson) and Cole Thornhart (Brandon Buddy) were about to have their first sexual encounter – but were stopped by Starr’s father Todd (Trevor St. John). However, we need to understand that this type of scenario is all too real in this day and age.

Therefore, One Life to Live and ABC have come together with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy by giving fans a little insight into how the actress felt throughout the taping of this whole controversial storyline by means of a new blog: Start Talking With Kristen!

In her first weekly installment, Kristen Alderson talked about herself, how it felt to do the scenes with co-star Brandon Buddy (Cole) and her views on the pressures surrounding teen sex, etc. We think once fans read a bit from the young star’s perspective most will see this storyline has been put out there to do some good – and to help those young viewers who are in the same predicament that Starr and Cole have found themselves in!

Along with Kristen’s weekly blog, readers will also get the added benefit of reading current stats surrounding teen sex and pregnancy that may help not only those struggling with this common issue of today but for those parents out there who have always found it hard to talk to your kids about such touchy issues.

Soaps.com wants to commend ABC and One Life to Live for bringing this issue to the public’s eye. And to Kristen and Brandon, well done! You took what could have been a very uncomfortable storyline to play and executed it with sheer professionalism!