(Oh, sure. And next you’re going to tell us that the fathers of these local high school pregnant girls are across-the-board married men in their 40s & 50s, and that the same was true for all these 1950s teens...)
No I was just pointing out that the statistics that are being waved around are not so unusual. Teen does not necessarily mean 14 and there are a fair amount of high school pregnant girls.
OK, now let's put this into even more of a proper perspective: Pick out one of those local public high schools with a high pregnancy rate that you mentioned...Hypothetical: Now let's say you're that school district's board member, and you get other board members to agree with your idea of converting that school student body into a free-wheeling co-ed boarding school where males have easy access to coeds on campus 24/7.
And then, surprise, surprise...3-8 months after implementation, gee, golly-wiz, the pregnant rate @ the boarding school starts to skyrocket even higher (well, who would have imagined that?)
But that's OK. I'm sure some online apologist trying to cover up for my hypothetical scenario of a stupid decision on your part as a board member would come along and say something like...I can find 121 pregnant teenagers just by trolling the local abortion clinics. In the 50s many teens were pregnant and married in coed homes, etc. etc....
Why do we need to spell out the obvious to so many of you? You place vulnerable pre-teen and early teen girls in a cloistered, isolated near lock-down environment with 40 and 50 yo men who stockpile young wives like it's a buy one-get-5-free sale, and they've been generationally repeating this exploitation for over 75 years as fundamentalist Mormons and for 70+ years prior to that as mainstream Mormons...and now, in this specific case it appears that there's even more parent-child separation than other fLDS communities...leaving these children even more vulnerable than what's been reported for those other communities...and all we see from posters like you are flaccid statistical justifications that only reveals you have zero insight as to what actually has been occurring in communities like Juarez Mexico (1890s, early 1900s); Bountiful, Canada (1890s on); Hildale, UT & Colorado City, AZ (1930s on)...