Posted on 09/29/2005 7:10:32 AM PDT by mlc9852
Forty-one Palm Beach County girls younger than 15 delivered babies last year -- twice as many as the year before and the most since 1998.
Almost 300 county high school girls each year are giving birth to their second or third child.
Overall births among 15- to 19-year-olds are up in the past two years, while totals across Florida are dropping even as the state's population rises.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
I want to see the statistic to see if there has been a corresponding decrease in abortions, and if the pregnancy rate has increased or decreased for that age group over the same period of time.
Where is Mr Robinson in this picture??? if Ms Robinson is a single mom I think we have found the REAL ROOT cause of this problem
Where is Mr Robinson in this picture??? if Ms Robinson is a single mom I think we have found the REAL ROOT cause of this problem
I think you have it figured out!
I was talking to my kids about six before they were teenagers. It was open and honest and non-threatening. My daughter is now 26 and my son is 24. Both are college grads with good careers. Daughter has been married for 2 years. Son is single.
I want some grand children!! Now!
But..but..I thought all the open and "how to" sex education was supposed to stop all that!
I am stunned.....
I didn't do it!
Rush's fault!
PB County is NO in FL.
Black poor and waiting on their check, hurricane or not.
You certainly summed it up nicely. Yet we are supposed to feel sorry for them and support them. And sex ed is a joke.
They accidentally put the condom on Pat Buchanan.
An irate father is running around with a rope, looking to hand some guy named "Chad".
Grrrr. Hand = hang. Kind or ruins the whole joke.
Grrrr.
It's predominantly white girls getting pregnant in our school district (E MO) and it is considered a 'status symbol'. Sick! Especially if a different race father.
Our son goes to parochial school of course.
You can thank the media and MTV for that.
Yeah, I had heard of that one. One otherwise level-headed girl I know did just that, for just that reason. She's on her own now, 19 with a kid. It is a sweet child, but what a tough row to hoe...
As we all learned during the Klinton days... hey, it's only about sex.
And the sheeple wonder what is happening. Given the lessons they've allowed their children to learn from that era and today, why the surprise.
They all gace Klinton a pass and they wonder how their kids learned this stuff.
Words have meaning and actions (and words) have consequences.
What is the age of consent in Florida? I can't believe it is 14 or lower, the county needs to go after this father. 41 cases of girls 14 or younger having babies is 41 cases of statutory rape that need to be prosecuted.
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