Posted on 08/09/2019 5:35:50 AM PDT by C19fan
The teen birth rate has been cut in half since 2008, but the causes behind plummeting teenage pregnancies could also extend into adulthood and contribute to a demographic crisis.
Although teen pregnancy has loomed large in American culture in recent decades, rates of teen births, pregnancy, and even abortion have fallen precipitously. Public health experts have cheered this trend, given the links between teen pregnancy and adverse outcomes for both mother and child. But the general decline in childbirth among a younger cohort may carry over into later years, reinforcing America's record-low fertility rate.
The new Pew study breaks down the exact figures underlying the teen pregnancy drop. As of 2018, there were about 17 babies born per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19 in the United States. That number is the lowest figure on record, with rates more or less continuously declining since 1990.
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Now that Trump is clamping down on trafficking, democrats admit there is a shortage of ladies of the bricks
Jeffrey Epstein hardest hit.
I see references to drops in teen pregnancy overall (ending in birth, miscarriage, or abortion) but don’t see any numbers cited to the number of pregnancies.
with morning after pills over the counter, how can anyone say what the number of pregnancies were?
>>I do not see one negative aspect of this. So what if overall fertility drops.
Even if there are fertility problems later in life?
Pocket porn and goofy girls are the top causes, IMHO.
>>I do not see one negative aspect of this. So what if overall fertility drops.
>>>Even if there are fertility problems later in life?
Could be a problem. Depends on the demographic distribution.
But teen uniration at Walmart up 2000%.
video game venue is through the roof
Europe imported some fertile rapists to address their “crisis”.
Record numbers of illegal border crossings.
It was all part of the strategy to destroy a the foundation of America, which is families.
Well, now that depends on how far it drops. Doesn't it?
The trend peak was 1957. It's been straight down since then. The economy has exploded since '57.
It’s all Trump’s fault.
If our teens are not getting horny or are turning their sexual urgings to another direction than male/female copulation, we are in a lot more trouble than the fertility rate.
Sex has been a primal urge since forever.
Even God put his stamp of approval on it,.... replenish the earth.
As best as I can understand human history, wer've been having babies at an early age (teens) for almost ever.
I always considered the American puritanical leanings as a result of Victorian English mores brought to our shores.
It's really not bad to be careful, discreet and a little older before outwardly practicing the family thing, but to intentionally ignore or alter a God given element of our humanity is not only a sin ..
1 Corinthians 7:5 King James Version (KJV)
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
But is also an open door to be over run (as a nation) by those that are kicking the babies out 3 to 1 over OUR rate.
Now, I know the article is about teen motherhood, but that implies single teen girls, which is not necessarilly correct.
MANY kids used to MARRY in their teens and stayerd together for life.
I'm gonn'a play my same old saw ...... shut down public schools.
In Denmark, many parents pay for their married kids’ vacations to sultry places, in hopes she’ll get pregnant.
I do not see one negative aspect of this. So what if overall fertility drops.
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Not good if fertility drops for the wrong reasons, i.e., LGBT, couples having irrational climate fears, aging women unable to find good husbands, etc. MAGA USA can’t survive without functional families bearing and raising hard working and moral children.
GOOD
YOu are a fool.
white middle class fertility has dropped the most.
They have been trained by the schools to not want children, to see them as a burden, and to kill them.
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