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The number of U.S. teenagers who gave birth increased for the first time in 15 years, raising what a health official called ``a red flag.'' The rate at which teen girls became mothers rose 2.8 percent in 2006 from a year earlier The increase ended a decline that began when teen birthrate peaked at 38 births per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 17 in 1991

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engineer1 month, 2 weeks ago

This is a direct result of teaching abstinence only. If everything was taught, the teens would be more knowledgeable and responsible
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miklkit1 month, 2 weeks ago

There's more to sex than the birds and the bees. Abstinence only sex education is foolish.
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nikkibabe1 month, 2 weeks ago

While teenagers in India, Korea & China are excelling in Science, Math & Technology, teenagers in USA are excelling in another area.
So, do you still wonder why corporations are shipping jobs overseas to those countries?
Happy pregnancy USA!
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Mutainia1 month, 2 weeks ago

If you listen to their music, it's like a constant drone of "Do da wild thang". Combine that with the videos they can down-load with girls "shaken it" to that type of drone, I'm shocked that it's not far worse. And, it seems to be EVERY where, know'm say'n? And, they HAVE to love such music, or, be thought of as un-cool.
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  Dionys1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  They should ban that music. Because it's music and the media that are making kids have unprotected sex with one another. Kids should only be able to watch the 700 club because then God would tell them just how they can be abstinent like their parents and all their friends who just pretend they're normal teens.
  Maybe we can post "parental advisory" stickers. Or just put all those rappers promoting sex into concentration camps.
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  Children could be taught sex education that covers all the possibilities, touching on both abstinence and safer-sex so that when they make the inevitable choice, they're fully informed.
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    Mutainia1 month, 2 weeks ago
    
    BOY, Mr. "O I'm not a Muslim", you, apparently, really AREN'T a Muslim, ARE you? Since, LIKE the 700 Club, it's pious Islam that BLAMES rampant teenage sex and rape on Western Culture (i.e. RAP music), well, hey, again, maybe you AREN'T... a Muslim... AFTER all!?!?
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  Sabretooth1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Mutainia, i think it is due to that Elvis Presley, what with his gyrating hips and all, working the girls into a frenzy. They really need to look at banning that devil music called Rock and Roll.
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    Mutainia1 month, 2 weeks ago
    
    And YOU, Sabretooth, are showing your anti-Islam mentality also, aren't you. Since, apparently, you think, like Dionys, that it's STUPID to think sex based music (Western influence) could have an effect on teenage pregnancy cases, true?
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  joey-evans1 month, 2 weeks ago
  
  Yeah Mutty, it's that damn evil music that is making them spread their legs and making babies.....that god damn music! I bet it is sumin that that alkada thought up.
  JOEY EVANS
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    Mutainia1 month, 2 weeks ago
    
    Hey, JOEY EVANs. You mean, it's NOT "sumin that that alkada thought up"? Sounds like YOU are anti-Fundamentalist Islam as well, since THEY, pious Muslims, think Rap music is causing teen pregnancy being just ONE of the evils of the West.
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hamy1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Bush legacy of stupidity again shows it's face. I feel so bad for kids today who are being used as political pawns. They are the ones who have to live with the consequences of an administration gone haywire. Abstinence only is ridiculous and yet he is still funnelling money into it.
And don't forget that he tied abstinence programs to money used to fight HIV in Africa. That's exactly what dying Africans need is shame.
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