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Why Aren't US Teens Having Babies So Much Anymore?
By Nathaniel Jones - AOL NewsIs abstinence the new normal? The teen pregnancy rate hit a record low in 2009, according to new data just released by the National Center for Health Statistics. The birth rate last year fell to 39.1 births per 1,000 teens, a decrease of 6 percent from 2008. What's keeping America's teens childless? Surge Desk takes a look at a few of the competing explanations. No one's having babies at any age American teens could just be emulating their older role models; hardly anyone had babies in 2009. Birth rates also fell for women in their early 20s and for women in their late 20s and early ...
Does O'Donnell Want the Whole Country to Stop Having Sex?
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Sept. 24) -- Stop, in the name of love? In newly unearthed video footage taken from a 2003 taping of the MSNBC show "Scarborough Country," Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is shown debating the topic of sexual abstinence and appears to suggest that the whole country should give up sex (presumably the premarital kind). The exchange came with Eric Nies of the Moment of Hope Foundation, a group that seeks to educate young people about safe-sex practices. Here's how the back-and-forth went: NIES: I tell them to be careful. You have to wear a condom. You have to protect ...
Sarah Palin Never Told Bristol About the 'Birds and the Bees'
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyAmong the more compelling bits of background information teen mom Bristol Palin reveals about her famous family in the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar is the fact neither of her parents, Todd and Sarah Palin, ever gave her the "sex talk." "It's not like we all sat down and were like, 'Alright, here's the birds and the bees,'" Palin told the magazine. "Truly, my parents just assumed that I wasn't doing anything. And it was a shock for us all." Bristol's pregnancy by then-boyfriend Levi Johnston caused a sensation on the presidential campaign trail back in 2008, especially since she was only ...
Is Denying Abstinence News Any Different From Denying Climate Change?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyIt's been a bloody week in the culture wars: First came the news that abstinence-only pregnancy-prevention programs may work a lot better than we thought. (Sometimes, I say "we" were wrong just to be polite, but this isn't one of those times; only last week I was on our colleague Bonnie Erbe's PBS show flapping my jaws in favor of the mixed-message approach and insisting that abstinence-only wasn't getting the job done. Live and learn, though; it's not like this is a theological debate, right?) A study of 662 6th and 7th graders published earlier this week in the Archives of Pediatric & ...
Abstinence-Only Programs Delay Sexual Activity, Study Says
By David Sessions - Politics DailySex education programs that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant number to delay sexual activity, according to a landmark study published Monday, the Washington Post reports. The study could have an impact on the debate over sex education in the United States, where several opposing methods contend for funding and legitimacy.Only a third of the sixth- and seventh-graders who participated in an abstinence-only program started having sex in the next two years, the study found, while nearly half the students who attended other classes became sexually ...
Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Rise for First Time in Years
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 26) -- New figures show a reversal in the years-long trend of declining teen pregnancy in the United States. Pregnancy and abortion rates for 15-to-19-year-olds increased for the first time in more than a decade in 2006, the most recent year for which statistics are available. The numbers compiled by the Guttmacher Institute are "deeply troubling," according to Heather Boonstra, a senior public policy associate for the reproductive health research group. She linked the increase to the Bush administration's emphasis on abstinence-only sex education programs, which her organization ...
Bristol Palin Says Abstinence Doesn't Cut It
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn an interview with FOX News's Greta Van Susteren, Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin discussed her unplanned pregnancy, and the out-of-wedlock birth her son Tripp. She seems like a very loving parent and nice young woman who genuinely wants other teens to learn from her mistakes. In specific she says she has no philosophical or religious issue with teens using contraception, and realizes that abstinence isn't a "realistic" course of action for most people. Watch:Some may be surprised to hear Bristol's views on abstinence, but she's right on target. Studies ...
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