Should not pregnancy be encouraged among Christian teenage girls in Europe?
Only if they’re married.
BTW I watched a gazillion Christmas movies over the holidays (ok, it’s a weakness of mine) and it was interesting how many of them involved single mothers. In fact, almost ALL of them centered around a single mom who was wonderful. Now, it’s not to say that I don’t think there are wonderful single moms, but aren’t at least a few of them not wonderful? The media loves single mom’s for some reason. Maybe because they don’t like men very much.
Only if they're married to a man with a job.
One can only wonder why so many adults seem determined to undermine abstinence efforts and are unwilling to help our teenagers find a path toward a healthy and promising future. You have to wonder why a respected, peer-reviewed journal chose to published an article based on such an obviously flawed methodology.
It's simple - they don't want there to be any suggestion that sex outside marriage is morally wrong or socially damaging. Married vs. unmarried, rather than under-20 vs. over-20, is the significant distinction.
I think the poplular part preceeds the pregnancy.
We HAVE become a feral culture.
Whoaaaa! He's making a huge leap there with ZERO evidence to back it up. College students are presumably the *least* likely subset of 18-19 year olds to have a babies. They are much more likely to be using contraceptives than non-college students of the same age, due to the widespread availability of contraceptives and "morning after" pills on most campuses (both at the college health centers, and condom dispensers in dorm bathrooms), and due their enrollment in college being a sign of at least somewhat above average planning-ahead habits. They are also much more likely to have abortions if they get pregnant, since if they've started college they're very unlikely to have planned to have a baby before graduating, and very likely to have other plans that are not consistent with having a baby (even to give up for adoption).
I'm sure a significant number of these 18-19 year olds giving birth are inner city welfare types and "trailer trash" types, many of whom are already on their second or third baby at that point, having dropped out of high school before the first one arrived. A smaller, but significant percentage are probably girls who have married young, but not gone to college (since it's extremely unusual for young women who are planning to go to college right out of high school to get married before they either graduate from or drop out of high school). There are probably quite a few young military wives represented.
The media has removed the stigma against teen pregnancy by making television shows and movies glorifying it. Since most of the pinheads of this nation get everything they know from television, they now think it is acceptable behavior. It is quickly becoming the norm.