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I couldn't find statistics on this but it is widely known that out of all 1st world countries, teen pregnancy is the highest in the United States(As per percentage). I think Mr. Blair(though I wish Our president was more like him... I have to admit the guy has a lot of balls for an englishman). To me this doesn't seem like a huge issue in the UK. I seriously think Mr. Blair has bigger fish to fry though.

So you get your statistics from Jerry Springer. I bet you get your **** from there too.

Bewbies for beads.

First, the plan in England sounds like a load of crap to me. If I heard a plan that called for carding for contraception, forcing you to be above 16 to purchase, it would still **** me off. But making someone under the age of 16 a criminal simply for seeking -advice-? That is absolutely asinine. I am suprised Bush didn't think of it.

And to Kooshtwo? Try looking at socioeconomic status instead of skin color next time, you racist jerk. The US's problems with teen pregnancy are complicated, and they don't lie with our diverse population. If anything, that population is an asset.

Wow. You running for office? I'm Latina, and the most reaction I could summon up to that was .

And to think, I flirted with converting to Mexicanism. It was after those evangelists with the lawnmower showed up at my door.

Eh, I'm running for neighborhood council member. We are one diverse community. Gotta throw in the sctick where I can.

Well, you won't accept them coming to your science class. They have to try to convert you elsewhere.

That is a terrible idea. Kids need that advice, how does anything bad come of making them more informed of the possible consequences of sex and how to prevent them. Telling kids "Something possibly terrible might happen to you if you get near the special place of your boyfriend" does not deter teenagers from having sex.

Inform them of the consequences, methods of protection, and hope their upbringing leads them to making the right choices. If it wasn't for a tip from some concerned highschoolers about the glow-in-the dark condom machine in the back bathroom of the seedy local downtown gas station my life might have turned out very differently.

If I had been well informed about the possible consequences of my actions and had someone to talk too I might have even made some better decisions and not needed to make up excuses of why I had to use the gas station bathroom every time I went there.





Likely, nothing you ever say or type will be right. Instead of wasting everyone's time smearing more virtual shi[/b]t across this forum, do us a favor and indulge in the oft sited proverbial bleach cocktail.

If we stop telling kids about sex, we won't have any teen pregnancy to deal with.

Similarly, if we stop telling people about the flu, we can avert the yearly winter outbreak.

Glad you see you have cited your sources for that intelectual arguement you made.

You forgot to mention the part where all the mothers are white. OMGZ!!1


Wingchild has pretty much said what I had to say, so I'll leave it at that.

Hispanic specifically refers to anyone who natively speaks spanish. More historically, anyone from a nation that was originally part of the "spanish colonial empire" in the new world (Hispania).

Latino/Latina, usually refers to anyone from "Latin America", which can be confusing in and of itself due to vagarities in what exactly that means. Historically, it applies to anyone who's from south of the US/Mexico border (including the various islands in the gulf region), however it's also commonly used to refer to anyone who's family originates from that area.

There's a hell of a lot of overlap between them, and in most cases, they're interchangable. However, you might get into trouble refering to a Portugese speaking Brazilian as "Hispanic"...


As to the teen statistics, all racism aside the US does take in a hell of a lot more immigrants then any other 1st world nation. Statistically, immigrants from poorer countries do tend to have more children and start earlier. Not coincidentally, US statistics tend to mirror that with 1-3rd generation immigrants having higher rates of teen pregnancy then other demographics.

It's not really about race, but the culture change. Most 1st and 2nd generation Mexican families have really hard times with this since they are coming from a culture where girls are often marrried off very young (what do you *think* a Quincinetta is all about?) and it's assumed they'll be sexually active, but within a cultural structure that puts enormous pressure on those young couples to marry. Toss them into a culture where that's frowned upon (and in some states illegal), and it's not hard to predict the results. Usually, by the 3rd and successive generations the statistics change to be more like the "norm".


The only real anomoly is African-Americans. For some reason, we see high rates of teen pregnancy and out of wedlock births even in families that have been in the country for 8+ generations. There's a ton of social theories on that one though...