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Lifelike baby dolls designed to deter teenagers from having children actually RAISE pregnancy rates
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 25, 2016 | Ben Spencer

Posted on 08/25/2016 12:43:39 PM PDT by C19fan

Lifelike baby dolls designed to deter teenage girls from having children actually raise pregnancy rates, a major study suggests. The teenage pregnancy prevention programme, which is used in schools around the world, does not seem to work, according to the first proper trial to test it. Girls who took part were more, not less, likely to become pregnant compared to those who did not take part.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: pregnancy; teens
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Unintended consequences strike back.
1 posted on 08/25/2016 12:43:40 PM PDT by C19fan
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Next up: Use of full-size blow-up dolls?


2 posted on 08/25/2016 12:45:12 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Probably not good on our part to assume it is unintended.

If its a liberal idea, they never broadcast their real goals to the dupes they are attempting to control.


3 posted on 08/25/2016 12:46:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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4 posted on 08/25/2016 12:50:21 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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If they’re too lifelike, they trigger the maternal response just based on the appearance. “Baby” simulators need to be a completely non-human device that requires regular attention/maintenance, must be manipulated frequently, is sensitive to mishandling, and sometimes will sound an alarm that must be attended to simply so it won’t become even more annoying, even though the alarm cannot immediately be shut off.

The “cute” appearance and the biological effects it has are solely for the purpose of making sure the parents don’t kill their offspring before they can become self-sufficient. That appearance, and positive behavior exhibited by babies, trigger reward centers deep in the brain; granted, when not actively counteracting the aggravation that a helpless infant can impose, they are a good reminder of why parents put up with it.


5 posted on 08/25/2016 12:53:51 PM PDT by Little Pig
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It takes a village.


6 posted on 08/25/2016 12:54:11 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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Lifelike baby dolls designed to deter teenagers from having children actually RAISE pregnancy rates

They must be inserting it incorrectly.

7 posted on 08/25/2016 12:54:25 PM PDT by PGR88
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give the boys lifelike blow up women dolls and that should solve the problem...


8 posted on 08/25/2016 12:54:29 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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They need more random vomiting and 3am cholic.

Are school which use these already having a high pregnancy rate, thus even if they work they won't bring the rate down to the level of schools which don't use tgem.?

9 posted on 08/25/2016 12:54:49 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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Learned an hour ago my nephew (in-law here in Berlin) is going to be named Samuel. :)


10 posted on 08/25/2016 12:59:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Read a story where there were full action baby dolls that moved and cried at random times day or night. You had to ‘fake’ feed them, change diapers etc. They also had to carry them around pretty much all day. If that wasn’t a deterrent then ...


11 posted on 08/25/2016 12:59:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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How about if they make the smell like baby poop and throwup?


12 posted on 08/25/2016 1:04:40 PM PDT by dhs12345
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Unless these dolls needed to be tended to at 2am every morning they were not lifelike enough.
13 posted on 08/25/2016 1:06:08 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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Baby barf doesn’t really smell much, nor does their poop until they start solid food. In any case, you get dulled to that far more quickly than you do to the late nights, bouts of colic, attention requirements, and general logistical hassle of managing a totally helpless nonverbal human.


14 posted on 08/25/2016 1:09:34 PM PDT by Little Pig
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Oh man, so you haven’t experienced projectile vomit baby barf curd? And when the kiddo gets prunes for lunch.


15 posted on 08/25/2016 1:14:06 PM PDT by dhs12345
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Ahh, fun with baby dolls...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKMUZ4tlJg


16 posted on 08/25/2016 1:14:44 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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Gotta keep the birthdate of those native Brits down. Don’t they know their supposed to lose this Ethnic war Leftists have thrust upon us?


17 posted on 08/25/2016 1:19:01 PM PDT by Crucial
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Are you thinking of “The Education of Tigress McCardle” by C. M. Kornbluth? Very funny story.


18 posted on 08/25/2016 1:19:24 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Somehow, this is kinda reassuring...


19 posted on 08/25/2016 1:24:19 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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Nope. My kid rarely spit up really violently, and ate fairly mild food at first, mostly rice, lentils, along with very tiny amounts of mashed chicken and fish (raised hindu and breastfed until past 2yrs). She didn’t get more...colorful food until she was past the spitup stage. When she did really throw up, it was usually pretty inoffensive, even if the mess was widespread.


20 posted on 08/25/2016 1:29:51 PM PDT by Little Pig
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