The birth rate has gone down across the board due to the bad economy, not improved sex education. Thanks to Obama, people can't afford to have children any more. So that's your better world, a world without children.
And the abortion rate has gone up due to the bad economy. Is that good news too? Because that's what's keeping down teen birth rates.
Abortion rate has gone down. Teen pregnancy puts the child and mother at terrible economic disadvantage... whatever the economy.
There are probably multiple factors here, as there are in any complex system. What we know is that teen birth rates have gone way down. And here we learn that between 1998 and 2005, California teen abortion rates went DOWN 66%. So youir claim seems doubtful. However, I personally doubt that better sex education explains these drastic reductions in BOTH birth and abortion rates. Clearly, pregnancy rates are down astoundingly. Changes of this magnitude tend nearly always to be social changes, not technical or educational changes. Social changes might be less pressure on teens to be sexually active, greater social (and parental) acceptance of contraceptives, and changed reporting requirements or classifications.
I think its because boys of this younger generation aren't all that interested in sex. They'd rather watch anime cartoons and play games on the Xbox.
Glad to hear. Here is a study on Abstinence only education and it's effects on teen pregnancies. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0024658
Blackrook just can't be happy about good news like this because it was achieved without churches and jebus.
yeah I know, when the economy is bad teens can't afford to go out on dates and have sex so they stay at home and play nintendo. the also can't afford birth control so they dont' have sex because they can't afort kids. Education never solved any problem and access to free contraceptives isn't going to stop pregnancies or reduce the number of abortions. Nope just elect a black president. the best damn birth control and abortion reduction strategy ever devised. entertainment value of your post: 8.0 content value of your post: -8.0 net result: zero.
what gets me, is that it ain't rocket science, yet these morons think that asbtinence is a better "solution" than education and access to free contraceptives. And worse, typically the states with these idiotic abstinence only education programs are also the ones that have shut down abortions clinics and women's healthcare providers in an effort to stop abortion. As Roman Troy Moronie said in Johnny Dangerously "fargin' iceholes".
You need to define "better". If you're talking about reducing unwanted pregnancies, clearly this is worse. But if you are talking about being in accordance with religious doctrine, it is MUCH better. Let's be honest here. The purpose has nothing to do with stopping abortion, since even the most religious dunce knows that doesn't work. The purpose here is to deny access to abortion to the, uh, less caucasian lower classes who tend to be unable to afford competent medical treatment. Wealthier, whiter people have ALWAYS been able to afford competent abortion, even before Roe. And this, in turn, means a lot more, uh, less caucasian girls will die or be rendered sterile in back alleys, which is their proper place in life, priase Jesus.
I am talking about the efficacy of a solution. frankly being in accordance with a religious doctrine that is not practiced by close to 2/3's of the "faithful" is nothing more than hypocritical and lousy "solution". Nothing like attempting to foist doctrinal hypocrisy onto the teenager dealing with their raging hormones. amen
Wasn't that the premise of a book awhile back - it said something to the effect that crime was down because so many kids were online that they didn't have time to go out and rob a 7-11 or suchlike?
Couldn't you even read the post? This is the pregnancy rate reduction for TEENAGERS! Yeah, those single teenage moms have ALWAYS been primarily concerned with affording to have their unwed babies while still in high school.
