We're number one! We're number one!
Posted on 08/31/2009 9:40:59 PM PDT by trumandogz
More girls under 15 give birth in Houston than any other U.S. city, according to a new national report, and many of the city's teen moms have additional children before they turn 20. The report by the research organization Child Trends found that there were 20 percent more babies born to girls 14 or younger in Houston than in New York and Los Angeles in 2006 and that 24 percent of all Houston's teen births were repeat births that year, the latest for which data is available.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
It is decidedly antiChristian, ascribing the term “sex negative” to Christian moral teachings.
http://www.positive.org/Home/index.html
Just say yes:
We have a quick and easy online tour through the most important topics for teens who are sexually active now or just thinking about having sex. It's called “Just Say Yes” (en español: “¡Di Que Sí!”) because we're tired of people telling us what we can and can't do. There's no preaching. No moralizing. Just the facts.
Many groups that are antiabstinence are not honest in their reason for opposing abstinence (as a behavior as well as a teaching). They find it to be an “unhealthy” suppression of sexual desire.
Healthcare is not Ted Kennedy’s legacy. This is.
Maybe I’m lost in the semantics of all this, but the liberals are saying abstinence education doesn’t work?
Maybe the message doesn’t penetrate these groups of people; that’s quite possible. But abstinence itself; the physical act of abstaining always works. Whether educating people in that way makes a difference is questionable, but abstinence behavior will work if people behave that way.
72 teen mothers in Houston were 14 or under.
Doesn’t take too many border crossings to reach that figure.
For the most part, the people that cross the border illegally are adult males.
Very few bring their children across illegally.
¿Si Habla Español?
Perhaps English isn't their language. I know for a fact that the Hispanic culture encourages young marriage and kids. Unfortunately they are skipping the married status and going for it.
It's not so much about brainwashing them or “educating” them. It's about VALUES and PRINCIPLES. Sex has been around for a long time ... . NOW we have a tremendous problem with SELF CONTROL. and specifically in the area of sex. Sure, people in the “old days” would occasionally get pregnant but it wasn't the norm and “repeats” weren't the norm either.
I really blame parents and the “culture”. It's now just the Hispanic culture but our own culture is encouraging this. Movies, TV shows all encourage this stuff. It's up to parents to step up.
I hear ya ... .
All of this is straight out of the Marx playbook.
DESTROY the TRADITIONAL FAMILY - anyway you can.
¿Si Habla Español?
Me speak well english.
As am I (and probably most on this board)
How to phrase this? Is the age of 15 inconsistent with other areas?
I've read (quickly) some of the replies and of course, there are other questions, but they don't apply to the children having children (at least not in my 'ancient' method of upbringing).
For me, to have a child, hopefully, it is to have a family. Sadly, I don't see this happening with many of the stories that are being reported.
I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
“In Texas, we are Pro-Life.”
Still, the sperm-donor should be prosecuted if an adult...
“Our strength lies in our diversity.”
Kids having babies is a bad cycle in industrial and post-industrial societies.
The primary problem is that it does not provide those who are having babies to pursue education and without education the cycle is perpetuated.
Both is Texas and Louisiana I have encountered families of all races or ethnicities where there is an infant, a 15 year-old mother, a 30 year-old grandmother and a 45 year-old great-grandmother.
That reproductive cycle may have worked in preindustrial times, but today it is devastating for the individual, the family, the culture and the nation.
Thank you for the reply, it is mostly in line with my thoughts.
I would ask you, do you see any provision in our education system, the ability to stop even older ‘children’ to have children?
Is there, in our society, the ability to give them the reasoning to not have children? (or has that now become some kind or right or right of passage?)
The United Nations (not that I have faith in that) attempts to and request funding to do so in other nations. What stops us from doing the same?
(realizing that the question/s may be without an answer).
Again, thanks.
Something to do with the length of the chromosomes, I've read.
Is there, in our society, the ability to give them the reasoning to not have children? (or has that now become some kind or right or right of passage?
We cannot expect to find success among among all classes and ethnicities by teaching them about relationships, sex and reproduction in the exact same manner
Thus, Abstinence Education may work with suburban kids who have educated parents and who have other avenues of information available to them if they wish to research contraception.
However, those kids who have uneducated parents and thus may not have the intellectual discipline to choose abstinence, will not be well served with Abstinence Education. Furthermore, these kids likely do not have access to the Internet or the skills required to research birth control.
Therefore, since the parents in that second group are failing to provide their children with the abilities to make wise decisions or at least to conduct research on matters of reproduction, it is up to us, the educated, to see to it that our schools provide this information.
Schools or society, I don't know which, probably both. (I may be too tired to be coherent or thoughtful on this now)
Education, Yes, perhaps also 'consequences' before and after? Are we as a society being too lenient in providing for those that don't care how their consequences affect others?
Consequences for parents/child and hopefully that will be an education (which most of us were brought up under?)
Perhaps even Society must be educated to be aware?
I now live in a town where there is a curfew (and a firehouse whistle to alert of same). That's something I never needed where I grew up... my parents took care of that!
Yup... and all eligible for food stamps and WIC if they have that in Houston.
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