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Blue States Practice the Family Values Red States Preach
New York Slimes ^ | November, 18, 2017 | Nicholas Kristof

Posted on 11/18/2017 8:07:32 PM PST by EdnaMode

As we watch Roy Moore thumping his Bible to defend himself from accusations of child molestation, let me toss out a verbal hand grenade: To some degree, liberals practice the values that conservatives preach.

This is complicated terrain with lots of exceptions, and the recent scandals involving Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. and Al Franken underscore that liberals can be skunks as much as anyone else. Yet if one looks at blue and red state populations as a whole, it’s striking that conservatives champion “family values” even as red states have high rates of teenage births, divorce and prostitution. In contrast, people in blue states don’t trumpet these family values but often seem to do a better job living them.

According to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 32 states, those with the highest percentage of high school students who say they have had sex are Mississippi, Delaware, West Virginia, Alabama and Arkansas. All but Delaware voted Republican in the last presidential election.

Meanwhile, the five states with the lowest proportion of high school students who have had sex were New York, California, Maryland, Nebraska and Connecticut. All but Nebraska voted Democratic.

When evangelical kids have sex, they’re less likely to use birth control — and that may be a reason (along with lower abortion rates) that red states have high teen birthrates.

Nine of the 10 states with the highest teen birthrates voted Republican in 2016. And nine of the 10 states with the lowest teen birthrates voted Democratic.

“Red regions of the country have higher teen pregnancy rates, more shotgun marriages and lower average ages at marriage and first birth,” Naomi Cahn and June Carbone wrote in their important 2010 book, “Red Families v. Blue Families.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; birthcontrol; birthrates; bluestates; fakenews; marriage; marriages; mediabias; newyorktimes; nicholaskristof; nyslimes; nytimes; pregnancy; redstates; sex; teensex
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To: EdnaMode
Memo To Nicholas Kristof:

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21 posted on 11/18/2017 9:20:20 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: EdnaMode

But progressives despise family values. How could the writer fail to understand this?

As always, progressivism defeats itself with its own words.


22 posted on 11/18/2017 9:30:24 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: dila813

From what I can piece together, teenagers account for 20% of abortions and women from 20 to 29 account for about 55%.


23 posted on 11/18/2017 9:48:26 PM PST by sparklite2 (-)
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To: EdnaMode

Stupid analysis unless going county by county. Liberals need to preach what they actually practice. They do tend to raise their families conservatively while preaching liberalism. But they don’t want it for their kids.


24 posted on 11/18/2017 10:21:27 PM PST by Phillyred
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

I know exactly what you are describing. I was born and raised there and have witnessed the same thing among the people with which I still maintain contact.


25 posted on 11/19/2017 3:52:06 AM PST by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: EdnaMode

Propaganda never has to make sense it just has to fool rich liberal morons to keep them writing checks.


26 posted on 11/19/2017 4:24:27 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: EdnaMode

They gotta tell themselves that so they don’t gather for mass suicides...


27 posted on 11/19/2017 4:34:49 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
“Democrats who are destroying traditional families as a matter of public policy. It’s basically, broken families for thee, but not for me.”

Same thing in the DC Metro area. Some parts are Leave It To Beaverland circa 1958. I'm amazed at how family oriented and very careful the parents are not to expose their children to the horrible pedagogy they force on the rest of the country.

28 posted on 11/19/2017 4:47:46 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: EdnaMode
There are over 3,000 Pregnancy Aid (CPC's) sites in the USA. There are less than 850 abortion sites.

The CPC's will help the pregnant mom access housing, medical aid, money, counseling, support, while she plans a future she and her child can both live with. At no charge whatsoever. The abortion site will just take your money and kill your baby.

Which one do you think really cares for women?

29 posted on 04/23/2018 7:53:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Abortion does not call into question the unborn baby's humanity, but our own.)
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To: EdnaMode

“Nine of the 10 states with the highest teen birthrates voted Republican in 2016.”

Of course. Unlike Blue States, we don’t murder our children and call it ‘abortion’.


30 posted on 04/23/2018 7:54:58 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: CodeToad

Exactly. The states with the highest abortion rates are blue states.


31 posted on 04/23/2018 8:06:52 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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