It hasn't been this good to be the baby of a teen mom in awhile. Yep, since a nice peak in 1991 there's been nothing but an appalling decline of teen parentage, but hey! Teens are finally getting it on! Which means teen births are on the rise. Yeah, baybay! Yep, birth rates to mothers age 15-19 rose 3% last year after 14 years of decline. Aww.
Well, not teen births exactly. Teens have already been born, something less than 20 years ago. But their babies. They're the ones being born. You know why?
Maybe it's because "complacency has become the enemy of progress". You think? And here I was thinking it had something to do with sex. Sex and teens. But the director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research group, thinks it's about complacency.
Complacency about...what, exactly?
That teens are doing it like rabbits? That abstinency education may not be working? That teen pregnancy rates can be tied to the economy? (I made that part up)(Actually I made it all up)(This paragraph, anyway)(But does abstinency education actually work?)
P.S. Does 3% consitute a trend, actually? I'm thinking not.
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