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Pregnancies among unmarried teens have plummeted
Yahoo! News ^ | Thu Sep 29 | Frank Greve

Posted on 09/30/2005 6:36:55 AM PDT by kpp_kpp

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abstinance couldn't possibly work could it?

the way the left talks you'd think that pregnancy/abortion was skyrocketing among teens because we're not giving sex demonstrations in class.

1 posted on 09/30/2005 6:36:57 AM PDT by kpp_kpp
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To: kpp_kpp

Bush's fault.


2 posted on 09/30/2005 6:38:05 AM PDT by RockinRight (What part of ILLEGAL immigration do they not understand?)
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To: kpp_kpp

Two Words: Welfare Reform


3 posted on 09/30/2005 6:38:50 AM PDT by BushCountry (They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.)
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And now for the rest of the story:

but sex with teachers is up ...

4 posted on 09/30/2005 6:40:42 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Geezee Freepin Peezee ...)
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To: kpp_kpp

bet tom daschle is deeply saddenned...


5 posted on 09/30/2005 6:41:29 AM PDT by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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abstinance couldn't possibly work could it?

the way the left talks you'd think that pregnancy/abortion was skyrocketing among teens because we're not giving sex demonstrations in class.

Of course abstinence "works," but apparently so does contraception -- exactly as the "left" says it does. The people interviewed for the article cite several factors; abstinence and contraception are both on the list. This may be one of those cases in which everybody has a point.

6 posted on 09/30/2005 6:42:07 AM PDT by TheGhostOfTomPaine
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To: BushCountry
Two Words: Welfare Reform

Two more words .. oral sex

7 posted on 09/30/2005 6:42:21 AM PDT by tx_eggman (If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs ... if we had some eggs.)
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Researchers don't really know what's making teens more cautious...

Child Support Collection.

Time limits on welfare.

Disability payments that don't require children (to collect).

8 posted on 09/30/2005 6:46:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (When incentives are switched, patterns change. Until then -- same old, same old.)
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Two more words .. oral sex

two words that are forgotten after marriage!!!!


9 posted on 09/30/2005 6:51:51 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: kpp_kpp

On a quick skim of the article, it appeared that the authors diligently went out of their way to play down, or even ignore, the effect of welfare reform.


10 posted on 09/30/2005 6:59:36 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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I blame Childhood obesity for this outrageous drop in teenage promiscuity! I mean, who wants to have sex with a fat person anyways????
I suggest a full scale government investigation on this topic. We have to get our kids into shape so that they can get back to having sex!
11 posted on 09/30/2005 6:59:59 AM PDT by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: Pondman88

LOL!!


12 posted on 09/30/2005 7:00:33 AM PDT by twigs
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"Our kids contracept better than most adults," Blangiardo said.

What a pitiful reflection on society that this statement was ever even thought of, much less voiced with pride. "To contracept" - I'm sad beyond words...


13 posted on 09/30/2005 7:03:40 AM PDT by jagusafr (The proof that we are rightly related to God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not")
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To: kpp_kpp

Interesting reading.


http://www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/data/genlfact.asp


14 posted on 09/30/2005 7:06:22 AM PDT by mlc9852
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Two Words: Welfare Reform

Go to Social Security's home page at:

http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/

Select "Table of Contents" then select "Title IV" and you will find information on Welfare As We Currently Know It. AFDC has been replaced with TANF but other than that there seems to be as many free government goodies available now as there ever was.

15 posted on 09/30/2005 7:10:42 AM PDT by An American In Dairyland
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That's changed, she said. "Now kids say the players are dirty. They don't mean that they're sluts," Gosser added. "It's said with a hygienic implication."


These leftists! God forbid there be a judgement of behavior. My daughter told me recently that there are still sluts. Both boys and girls who are sluts are ignored by the intellegent kids.


16 posted on 09/30/2005 7:25:33 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Mmmmmmm! Mmmmmmm! Good!)
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To: camle

Daschle? I'll bet Clinton is crying a river.


17 posted on 09/30/2005 7:46:51 AM PDT by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate their country. Islam is a terrorist organization.)
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To: kpp_kpp

Liberals have been aborting their children for the past 30 years... conservatives have not. Any wonder that the kids today are more conservative in certain areas than before?


18 posted on 09/30/2005 7:49:48 AM PDT by ikka
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To: Pondman88
Not always!

/blush>
19 posted on 09/30/2005 8:58:41 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (Stuck on stupid... enough said.)
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To: Pondman88

After marriage, one cannot even mouth the words "oral sex"! ;-P


20 posted on 09/30/2005 9:11:36 AM PDT by MortMan (Eschew Obfuscation)
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