Posted on 01/07/2009 9:01:35 AM PST by Islander7
ATLANTA – Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday.
Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The teen pregnancy rate in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.
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The CDC? I didn’t realize pregnancy was a disease.
Are they only including mothers that give birth to their child, or do they include those that are pregnant but abort their child?
“...The CDC? I didn’t realize pregnancy was a disease...”
Your new president thinks children are burden.
I saw the story this morning and I too was surprised at the qualifier they included. The data is susceptible to various theories, including the one about teens not being able to defer gratification.
We need a breakdown of married vs non-married teen pregnancies, which would probably support Ann Coulter’s theory in her new book about what happens to children of single parent households.
“We’re Number #1”
Yes, but considering the small number of abortions in Mississippi, this is not surprising.
To me this statistic may actually be a good thing. I suspect that girls in Mississippi are not more promiscuous than their counterparts in other states. To me this means that they are simply less likely to abort their children than their counterparts in other states.
The question that is not addressed is the pregnancy rate versus the birth rate.
Southern states with high teen pregnancies? Hmmmm
We don’t call them northerners ‘Yankees” for nothing.
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What’s in them folk’s water down there, that they all getting knocked up so young?
And from the story: “Other factors include the escalating cost of some types of birth control and their unavailability in some communities, said Stephanie Birch, who directs maternal and child health programs for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
Glowing media portrayals of celebrity pregnancies don’t help, either, she said. “They make it out to be very glamorous,” said Birch, who cited a calculation by Alaska officials that teen pregnancies were up 6 percent in that state in 2006”
Gotta get in the dig on Alaska and Sarah.
It’s worth noting that they consider ALL teen pregnancies a disease, even if it’s a 19 year old married woman. The issue is more one of married vs. unmarried than of age.
No, according to Obama it is a mistake or accident.
Why is divorce like a hurricane in the South? Someone’s going to lose a double-wide!
It’s a non-story.
When you visit the source report, you find that birth rates have been dropping among teens—since 1991, in fact dramatically. And down even from 2000 in both 2005 and 2006.
The difference between 2005 and 2006, on which this story is based, is almost negligible in all races, up only 2 percent in the highest category, American Indian.
The story is written to rail on the red states, and the stats are cherry-picked to make it sound worse than it is.
Something . . . . something has been responsible for a dramatic birth rate decline among teens from 1991 to present. Where is that story?
some gov definitions of child go up to 25 or more
It ain’t the water. It’s just that there’s not much else to do, I mean it’s not like they spend time reading and wrestling and NASCAR only take up a few hours a day.
Majority red states. This is sad that conservative states are not practicing conservative ways. Between this and South Carolina having the third highest unempoyment does not do the red states any good. I wonder why the blue states are getting better the last few years. It used to be the red states were the best of everything, but now they are falling to the worst. This is depressing.
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