Teen birth rates highest in most religious states

[AllieBaba]

Oh, this is rich.

You're looking at just one disease. Look at all of them:

Rank
......Primary and secondary syphilis ...........Chlamydia .....................Gonnorhea
1 .......................Louisiana (12.4) ...........Mississippi (745.1) ........Mississippi (285.7)
2...................... Alabama (8.3) ...............Alaska (732.9) ..............Louisiana (259.7)
3 .......................Georgia (7.3) ...........South Carolina (611.7) ......South Carolina (239.0)

STD statistics for the USA

What's especially hilarious is that Alaska is right in the middle. That's right, except for HIV, southern states lead in EVERY STD.

Jesus, protect this country from your followers.

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Jesus, protect us from welfare and government medical. Because apparently, they lead to STDs and teen pregnancy.

Wrong again. The government wants to teach comprehensive sex education, but the religious fight it. They say if you teach kids pregnancy and disease prevention, they will run out and do it. Apparently, they just run out and do it anyway. The religious want their kids sick, pregnant and ignorant. If it worked for them, it can work for their children. So sad.

The schools are teaching it now, nit wit.

 

[Jay Canuck]

Does it cost more to the healthcare system when you are not covered?

 

[Ipsl]

Why is this news?

didn't Sarah Palin just prove her own thoughts on sex ed to be wrong?!

Yes minorities are very religious for the most part from what I've seen. There is usually a correlation between lack of proper education and religious beliefs.

 

[AllieBaba]

I'd say you have to be uneducated to hold that belief.

 

[Ipsl]

Which belief would that be?

The Sarah Palin bit or lack of education and religion?

 

[Old Rocks]

wrong again, dick breath, conservatives pay taxes, democwats do not. so we know who the parasites are.

Nice partisan lie

now prove it

disprove it.

Willow, senile old gal, the red states are net absorbers of federal revenue, the blue states net payers. It is the Conservatives that are a bunch of shiftless parasites.

Red states feed at Federal trough


Red states feed at Federal trough

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Though this is several years old, it demonstrates something called hypocrisy.Of the 10 states below only New Mexico and DC are blue states, the other eight are red. In fact, 17 of the 20 states receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are red states. Very interesting, very, very interesting.

States Receiving Most in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

 

[AllieBaba]

All that proves is that Dems are elitists asswipes who congregate in certain zip codes.

 

[Old Rocks]

This is perhaps the least surprising finding of social science to date: "Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion." In 2008 the larger public got a taste of what watchers of the social conservative movement have known for a long time, which is that they've quietly started to celebrate teenage motherhood, albeit while falling short of openly encouraging it. When Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston were trotted out as American heroes for the Big Knock-Up during the Republican National Convention, that was a wink and a nod to this growing enthusiasm in the Christian right.

Another example of the trend comes from the deliberately misnamed Feminists For Life, which sponsors a college lecture series that exhibits young women explaining why having a baby in college was the best thing that ever happened to them. Wild promises are implied: The boyfriend will make a romantic proposal straight out of a storybook, parents will be ecstatic, studies will be manageable, life will be darn near perfect. Perhaps Bristol Palin's lack of a storybook ending, which cannot be covered up with any number of People magazine covers, will help expose this lie that's been building within this subculture.

Don't think that the Christian right wanted it this way. It's in response to the impossible situation they've put their young people in. Mark Regnerus—himself an evangelical Christian, but one who takes his academic fealty to the truth seriously—wrote a book demonstrating that all the admonishments to evangelical youth to wait for marriage not only didn't cause them to wait longer to have sex, but that evangelical teenagers have sex at even younger ages than pretty much all other groups of teenagers. (He theorizes that their fear that stopgap behavior like oral sex and mutual masturbation is perverse drives them to intercourse sooner.) Add to that the levels of misinformation about contraception fed to them in an attempt to trick them out of having sex, and what you have is a situation where, to quote the researcher on this most recent study, "religious communities in the U.S. are more successful in discouraging the use of contraception among their teenagers than they are in discouraging sexual intercourse itself." Nature beats God most of the time.
Evangelical kids have sex, they just don't use birth control

 

[AllieBaba]

Dem kids don't use birth control either. They just get abortions when they get pregnant.

But nice rant anyway.

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, the dumb ones do. But many of the kids that realize the cost of failure to use contraceptives, use them and go ahead and finish college.

 

[AllieBaba]

Bullshit. The reason abortion rates are higher in Dem populations is because THEY GET PREGNANT just like the con girls do.

And you know, a large percentage of abortions are those "dumb" college students.

 

[rdean]

Nice partisan lie

now prove it

disprove it.

Willow, senile old gal, the red states are net absorbers of federal revenue, the blue states net payers. It is the Conservatives that are a bunch of shiftless parasites.

Red states feed at Federal trough


Red states feed at Federal trough

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Though this is several years old, it demonstrates something called hypocrisy.Of the 10 states below only New Mexico and DC are blue states, the other eight are red. In fact, 17 of the 20 states receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are red states. Very interesting, very, very interesting.

States Receiving Most in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

Without checking it out, I predict they also have the highest "dropout" rate.

 

[veritas]

All that proves is that Dems are elitists asswipes who congregate in certain zip codes.

 

[eots]

Old Rocks;1555122]This is perhaps the least surprising finding of social science to date: "Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion." In 2008 the larger public got a taste of what watchers of the social conservative movement have known for a long time, which is that they've quietly started to celebrate teenage motherhood, albeit while falling short of openly encouraging it. When Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston were trotted out as American heroes for the Big Knock-Up during the Republican National Convention, that was a wink and a nod to this growing enthusiasm in the Christian right.

Another example of the trend comes from the deliberately misnamed Feminists For Life, which sponsors a college lecture series that exhibits young women explaining why having a baby in college was the best thing that ever happened to them. Wild promises are implied: The boyfriend will make a romantic proposal straight out of a storybook, parents will be ecstatic, studies will be manageable, life will be darn near perfect. Perhaps Bristol Palin's lack of a storybook ending, which cannot be covered up with any number of People magazine covers, will help expose this lie that's been building within this subculture.

Don't think that the Christian right wanted it this way. It's in response to the impossible situation they've put their young people in. Mark Regnerus—himself an evangelical Christian, but one who takes his academic fealty to the truth seriously—wrote a book demonstrating that all the admonishments to evangelical youth to wait for marriage not only didn't cause them to wait longer to have sex, but that evangelical teenagers have sex at even younger ages than pretty much all other groups of teenagers. (He theorizes that their fear that stopgap behavior like oral sex and mutual masturbation is perverse drives them to intercourse sooner.) Add to that the levels of misinformation about contraception fed to them in an attempt to trick them out of having sex, and what you have is a situation where, to quote the researcher on this most recent study, "religious communities in the U.S. are more successful in discouraging the use of contraception among their teenagers than they are in discouraging sexual intercourse itself." Nature beats God most of the time.

God is Nature

Evangelical kids have sex, they just don't use birth control

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Evangelical kids have sex but don't murder their off spring as often I would consider that somewhat of a success..

 

[Political Junky]

disprove it.

Willow, senile old gal, the red states are net absorbers of federal revenue, the blue states net payers. It is the Conservatives that are a bunch of shiftless parasites.

Red states feed at Federal trough


Red states feed at Federal trough

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Though this is several years old, it demonstrates something called hypocrisy.Of the 10 states below only New Mexico and DC are blue states, the other eight are red. In fact, 17 of the 20 states receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are red states. Very interesting, very, very interesting.

States Receiving Most in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

Without checking it out, I predict they also have the highest "dropout" rate.

Thanks for that information.

 

[veritas]

DC is not a state, it is the Federal District, where lots of Federal stuff is. Virginia and Maryland technically receive a lot, but the Federal Gov't has sprawled outward with their stuff in these states with such items as the Pentagon and NIH and Fort Detrick and too many other items to name.

 

[DiveCon]

Willow, senile old gal, the red states are net absorbers of federal revenue, the blue states net payers. It is the Conservatives that are a bunch of shiftless parasites.

Red states feed at Federal trough


Red states feed at Federal trough

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Though this is several years old, it demonstrates something called hypocrisy.Of the 10 states below only New Mexico and DC are blue states, the other eight are red. In fact, 17 of the 20 states receiving the most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are red states. Very interesting, very, very interesting.

States Receiving Most in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

Without checking it out, I predict they also have the highest "dropout" rate.

Thanks for that information.

except he didnt provide anything but his opinion

 

[JBeukema]

Did anyone ever answer this:

Did they compare pregnancy and std rates, or only birth/abortion rates?
?

 

[rdean]

Without checking it out, I predict they also have the highest "dropout" rate.

Thanks for that information.

except he didnt provide anything but his opinion

It was a prediction, not an opinion.
Thanks
rdean