Today while reading this I found this wherein I found the following statistics:
Teen pregnancy rates decreased 29 percent for blacks and whites in the 1990s, compared to just 19 percent for Latinas, according to one group's research
Teen Pregnancy is dropping clear across the board--sometimes faster, sometimes slower. How do we fight this frightening trend? Not only the trend, but the insistent and wrong-headed view that it's somehow a good thing for the nation! When will the national dialogue deal with the complexity of teen pregnancies instead of treating any and all knocking-up of teens as one and the same thing?!
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Oh, how I hoped to never see an image from that movie again!!!
I thought you were all for teen pregnancy...?
I know. And they're saying that lowering rates in teen pregnancy is a good thing!!??
I'm sorry. This must have been really hard news for you to hear. At least the Latina rates are still high. They probably have super heroes like the awesome dude from Beauty and the Geek who can impregnate women who then give birth five minutes later. Lucky them. Maybe he can be the spokesperson for your teen pregnancy campaign.
He would be an awesome spokesperson for the campaign. Awesome.
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