Could that not be from keeping, rather than aborting, humans?
I'd like to see the racial breakdown of the teen birth rates. Just sayin'.
This makes sense. Higher birth rate, but NOT higher abortion rate—states with more Christians probably don’t have as many abortion.
Does not necessarily mean conception rate.
oh please.
What garbage.
As if the two are linked in any way whatever.
It’s not lack of contraception, it’s disdain for abortion.
What subgroup of the population has the highest level of unwed pregnancy? What do thes Bible Belt states have in common concerning that subgroup that could explain their higher numbers? Bueller? Bueller?
Perhaps because these communities frown upon teens having abortions.
Or maybe the 19 year old teenager is married.
Just from my observations, I don’t believe it has anything to do with ‘frowning on contraception” but instead, parents and children not discussing the issue. For many, the entire subject is ‘taboo’. When teenagers rebel, as they do, they gravitate towards what seems taboo (be it drinking, smoking, sex, etc), especially if their parents didn’t discuss with them consequences, etc.
I’m going to go out on a limb and speculate that more of these teenage birth mothers marry their baby’s fathers, too, and assume responsiblity for their offspring. Just sayin....
For western nations to even survive it is going to be necessary for us to find a way for people to again marry and start families beginning at age 17 - 19; the thing we’ve been doing for the last 60 years or so clearly isn’t working.
Again an example of drawing incorrect conclusions. Perhaps the birth rate ( particularly in places like Mississippi and the inner city of Pittsburgh) is large there because you have a bunch of unwed teens doing what they damned well please and telling any adults “You aren’t the boss of me).
I think the best way to read this is that religious communities let the children actually be born than abort them like in non-religious communities.
Abortion could play a role here, as well as the fact that the more conservative states tend to be more rural and thus, the opportunity to fool around is more present...it’s just something to do on a boring Friday night.
Cause everyone knows that if it is a “highly religious” state they winnow out the non believers and send them to the heathen outlands.
These journalists really have an agenda. I wonder if they learn it in journalism classes or if it is self-selection. Could be they’re not very smart.
They may get A’s in journalism classes but they flunk research design. Nothing in their data says it’s the religious folks who are having the babies.
Can’t have anything to do with low abortion rates. Surely not.
Sounds logical. Even teenagers from religious homes grow up in a culture where "sex for fun" is considered a human right. It all stems from the Enlightenment/Reformation idea that the individual is the basic unit of society, and that no one has the right to limit an individual's liberty.
The truth, of course, is that the family, not the individual, is the natural basis of human society, and that outside of a context of marriage and procreation the sexual act becomes meaningless and harmful.
The worship of individual liberty has made slaves of us, by shacking us to our primal desires. Until our current liberal/libertarian social environment collapses, the best thing a parent can do to prevent their children from fornicating is to raise them as part of a loving family that is explicitly at odds with the prevailing culture. Step One: get rid of television and radio in the home.