Posted on 08/25/2014 8:04:44 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
The staff of TeenWise, a Minneapolis-based non-profit, crunched the numbers for its annual report on Minnesota teenagers' sexual health. Their calculations seemed to show something unbelievable: the state's teen birth rate had a double-digit decline between 2009 and 2010.
That seemed impossible. Just three years earlier, in 2007, Minnesota's teen birth rate had increased by 1.4 percent; nationally it had increased by 3 percent in 2006. How could the rate then fall so steeply and so quickly?
"We ran the data, and we figured it was a mistake," said Judith Kahn, TeenWise's executive director. "Then, it looked like everybody had a mistake. We talked to others around the country, and they were all seeing a very similar thing."
TeenWise's calculations turned out to be accurate. Minnesota's teen birth rate fell by 10.5 percent in 2010. That same year, the national teen birth rate fell by 9.2 percent. That was one of the fastest annual declines on record until 2013, when the rate declined another 10 percent.
For five years now, America's teen birth rate has plummeted at an unprecedented rate, falling faster and faster. Between 2007 and 2013, the number of babies born to teens annually fell by 38.4 percent, according to research firm Demographic Intelligence. This drop occurred in tandem with steep declines in the abortion rate. That suggests that the drop isn't the product of more teenagers terminating pregnancies. More simply, fewer girls are getting pregnant.
"My jaw dropped," said Laura Lindberg, a senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute, of seeing the 2013 data, which the federal government published in June. "It feels like we're on this roller coaster with the momentum driving us down, and the slope just keeps getting faster and faster."
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Boys would rather play video games. Girls are a lot of trouble.
Virtue?
One would think this was a GOOD thing, no?
not necessarily, not if it because they are having more abortions, then it is deeply a bad thing.
“For five years now, America’s teen birth rate has plummeted at an unprecedented rate, falling faster and faster.”
Well, you know there’s HOPE when even dingbat Liberal teenaged girls don’t want to bring children into 0bamaWorld!
If they’re talking about BIRTH RATE, wouldn’t that differ from Live Births for Teens?
Easily obtained abortions would figure prominently, you’d think.
What am I missing, here?
Father of 2 male teens. I think you are correct. More the second part
A friend of mine blames smartphones, they never lift their heads up to look around.
But they are saying it is not because of that. So, generally good.
not necessarily, not if it because they are having more abortions, then it is deeply a bad thing.”
Yes, it means and increased number of abortions and it is a result of the schools and the parents forcing contraceptives on teenage girls.
The numbers of dead babies is astronomical.
Two words “Internet porn”
Either they are more effectively using contraception or they are having less sex.
Reading the source has its value:
“This drop occurred in tandem with steep declines in the abortion rate. That suggests that the drop isn’t the product of more teenagers terminating pregnancies. More simply, fewer girls are getting pregnant.”
Anal sex is IN. So is girl-girl.
“What am I missing, here?”
Homosexuality. More STD, and fewer babies.
“Either they are more effectively using contraception or they are having less sex.”
Or both, the two are not mutually exclusive. They could also be having less sex. All three are possible at the same time.
Boys would rather play games than attempt to get a girl and get rejected. Boys will drop their joysticks in a heartbeat if presented the opportunity. And girls are more forward these days, toward geeks and nerds besides.
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