CDC: While pregnancies down 37 percent in past two decades, 400,000 teens give birth annually
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from:msnbc.comUS teen pregnancy rate lowest in 70 years
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Great...but with mtv shows like 16 and pregnant perhaps this trend will change?
Also why dont they discuss welfare and single mothers:
'In 1968, 4.1% of families were headed by a woman on welfare; by 1980, the percentage increased to 10%.[16] In the 1970s, California was the U.S. state with the most generous welfare system.[17] Virtually all food stamp costs are paid by the federal government.[18] In 2008, 28.7 percent of the households headed by single women were considered poor.[19] "
Per wikipedia
Of course they dont marry b/c it messes up their bennies.
They also have more kids b/c they get paid extra for each additional kid----nice program to expand the future liberal voting base. and so it goes.....
Except for your first sentence, none of that has anything to do with the article.
I don't think those reality shows will have any effect on the numbers. What might have an effect on the numbers is if funding that is currently being distributed to clinics and education programs (which have been effective since the percentage of teen pregnancies has dropped) is cut so drastically that young women don't have access to reproductive care anymore.
Reproductive care??? You mean abortion and hormonal birth control (along with condoms) the first two which does anything but care for your reproductive system. Those two have caused more trouble with later infertility and messed up cycles than anything.
due to our economy for the past two years, the teens are too broke to be able to buy beer, so they all are staying sober which leads to less boinkin'. Let's face it, have you seen these teenage couples lately? How else can you explain any of them hooking up if it weren't for alcohol? Guess that's one up-side to the left wing generated policies ont eh economy.....no money, no booze...no pregnancies.
Jim, I am pretty sure that when I was a teen, "hooking up" didn't necessarily involve alcohol. I had plenty of friends who had sex that weren't drunk. You don't have to be inebriated to want to have sex. Your theory is ridiculous.
The rates are lower because we are pushing sex education, and places like PP are providing the necessary access to birth control and safe sex.
Well this is good... too bad the rates will go back up when the repubs get their way and cut all of the funding to Planned Parrenthood
exactly what I was thinkning............
Clearly this is an issue with many contributing factors. One being funding for real sexual reporoductive health education for both male and female teens. Information is the key. Being an informed teen brings upon informed decisions and choices that render responsible outcomes. Poverty, culture, race and education will always be in the mix, but education for our youth is paramount.
Republicans are a barrier to educating our young. They would rather stick their heads in the sand and teach abstinence instead of real facts. Facts all teens should know about anyway - it's their bodies and futures we are talking about.
"70 Years"?
But...teens didn't get pregnant 70 years ago. People were more moral then!
If I hear another person say this I will punch them out.
exactly!
"teens" got pregnant 70 years ago....they just happened to be married. Which to me make is even more gross.
And if they weren't married, they got married in a hurry!
Thats also because they got married when they were 16 or 17... hmmm
Actually the median age for marriage back then was 24.5.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005061.html
You're right, except thats for men. Women were more around 21.
And it also probably depends on where in the country they were. My grandparents all got married when they were 16 and my grandmother said most girls at her school only finished high school through either 8th or 10th grade because they were all getting married to boys who had already graduated. It probably has something to do with midwest farming communities. More upper middle class families would have their girls wait longer.
Heh. Someone forgot to look at the teen birth rate in Memphis.
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Ninety students who attend Frayser High School in Memphis are currently pregnant or have already had a baby this year. The stunning number means nearly 11 percent of the school's approximately 800 students are already experiencing the trials of parenthood.
You BET teens got pregnant during the 1950's. Where do you think all those adoptable babies came from? And who do you think filled those unwed mother's homes?
But if you read to the end of the article, you will read that a lot of the current teen mothers are Hispanics, who come from cultures where teen marriage and motherhoods are the norms. By the next generation, though, they will probably have figured out that you can do more for two children than you can for eight.
I hope so.
I feel sorry for any young girl who is raised to believe that her only purpose in life is to reproduce.
Unfortunately, they won't do anything about it as long as they continue to listen to the Catholic Church, which most Hispanics belong to.
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