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• Are Shotgun Weddings the Best Answer to Teen Pregnancy?

  Teen pregnancy is certainly foremost on the nation’s brain these days. With one in three girls in the U.S. pregnant before the age of 20, this is not a bad thing. But many commentators are concerned that the national dialogue about teen pregnancy that has resulted from the Palin affair has made teen moms seem like heroes. I’m concerned, more specifically, that few have questioned whether shotgun weddings between teen parents-to-be are the best way out of a very difficult situation. Read More... Posted Sep 09 2008, 03:11 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: teenagers, babies, divorce, teen pregnancy, engaged, sarah palin, pressure, redneck, bristol palin, levi johnston, RNC, republican national convention, teen marriage, hurry-up marriage, shotgun wedding, doesn't want kids

• Boot-Scootin' Baby Boom?

  Yeeehaw indeed….news reports surfaced this week that an area health agency sees a huge spike in pregnancies about five weeks after the Country Jam Music Festival in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to Fox News (yeah, I know) Nurse-Family Partnership supervisor Wanda Scott said referrals to her agency from the Mesa County Health Department quadruple every year after the music festival known as Country Jam.  Normally she sees 25 to 30 pregnancies a week, but about five weeks after Country Jam, that number skyrockets to 80. There's a similar event in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which is sponsored by Budweiser, even, and that doesn’t seem to have the same spike in pregnancies Read More... Posted Jul 10 2008, 05:02 PM by Amy Kuras with | with no comments Filed under: colorado, baby boom, country music, Country Jam, redneck, pregnancies, Mesa County