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100% of Baltimore city teens have been pregnant.
Can’t wait to see the comments on this.
It would be nice to have an objective report, not by the state or by the pansy press, or drooling tabloids. But the APE press loves titillating headlines.
The state of Texas’s case is built on the premise of a lie. And religious intolerance is not to be tolerated. The removal of 450 kids is without precedent. And was done lightly with out sufficient preparation and now these kids will be subject to people who do not have their best interests in mind.
The kids are now nothing more than slaves to the state and the whims of state worker that only care about headlines and prosecuting this case in the media. We should ask all of the state workers when they stopped having sex with cows.
There should be no more published on this subject until it is sorted out, anything else is pornography of the most vile and reprehensible sort.
If Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy were in the compound, believe it!
These posts have interested me in researching some actual teenage pregnancy rates, both recent and historical.
I could probably write a thesis on this topic, but I prefer to just look at some data and let others make their opinions. I’m not expressing any opinions yet.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00053654.htm
Table 1 shows US pregnancy rates per 1000 by State by age groups. For 1992 for example, for groups <15 and 15-17 combined, the rates ranged from about 40 - 100 per 1000. Since we don’t know who got the girls pregnant, all you can conclude is that pregnancy for girls <15 to 17 ranges from about 4% to 10%.
From a couple of US States, one North and one South:
Actual data on birth rates by age in Michigan for 1920 -2000:
http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/natality/Tab4.4.asp
This study shows low pregnancy rates in the age group from 15-19 is common only in recent times for Michigan and was more common just a decade ago.
Alabama pregnancy rates by age:
http://ph.state.al.us/Chs/HealthStatistics/Tables/2002/AVS02_27.htm
Total pregnancies for 2002 for ages 10-14 is 157,627, but for 15-19 combined, it is about 161,000. So, all I can see is that pregnancy rates seem to equal among these age groups. I was just interested in seeing the total number in this study. Seems large.
Is it me or are we the US not doing too well as a whole? Actually, a better question is what is the goal of these studies? What age do Freepers consider valid as an age to get pregnant? Legally, this differs by state just as the marriage age.
How much age difference is considered morally acceptable, between an 18 year old girl and an older man for instance?
I can only bet that these numbers are much higher for other countries, especially Asian and African countries and India.
Freepers seem to have all the correct answers, so I’d like to know. What do I tell my current children before they come of age?
And after the DNA testing is done, a whole lot of old perverts will be going to prison.
This one does not seem to pass the sniff test... I know it has relieved some of the pressure on the state but it doesn’t smell right.
First CPS identified 5 girls that they thought were under 18 and pregnant or with a baby already... One of those somehow proved she was 18 another turned 18 in the process — so they were down to 4 suspected. Then the day or two before or the day that they were going to snatch the babies from the Mothers. 25 or so young women (with babies) came forward and said they were 17. I believe all of the “minors” got to stay with their babies while all other “adult” Mothers had their babies and toddlers snatched by the CPS. The CPS certainly would have made that very clear to all the Mothers — if you are a minor you keep the baby — if your an adult you lose the baby.
Now if I was a Mother who was about to have my baby snatched I would very quickly become 17.
I wish the CPS would publish the age of all the Mothers. I wonder if all of a sudden there are no Mothers between the age of 18 and 23. I may be wrong — only time will tell. If I am right the State may end up with a lot of egg on the face.