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Mississippi is number one, it is also more than 37% black.
As a teacher in the South I can't remember a semester where I haven't taught 3 or 4 pregnant students. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2008/03/04/2008-03-04_bronx_teen_pregnancy_rate_soars.html
“In most religious states” do not equate to “most religious teens”. People seem to conveniently forget that even the most religious states have some very irreligious cities in them. If I remember correctly Texas was in the top ten most religious states, but Austin is not only not particularly religious—it is the headquarters of the American atheists. What true journalists would do is to try to determine how religious the knocked up teenagers are, not how religious their neighbors might be. But then we have many more journwhoralists than we have journalists these days.
They may have loose conservative religous beliefs but they are liberal dependents who vote for the Dem’s.
I read through all the comments and didnt see anyone suggest that perhaps Christians just want to have more kids. There are families in my church with 6, 7, 8 and 9 children - on purpose! They love kids!
My mother was 18 when she had me. She had been married to my father for 2 years at the time. They stayed together until his death two years ago. Teen pregnancy in and of itself is not a bad thing. Single women getting pregnant, teens or not, is a whole different thing, imo.
Jeanna Bryner - LiveScience.com: The Most Popular Myths in Science