Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate to break this to you, but obese people have sex too.
Yes, but not as much.
Okay where's the data or are you just conjecturing on normalized societal "standards"?
Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
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Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#192Wow. If you treat teenagers like the young adults that they are, and not talk down to them like children but rather give them solid information, they rise to the challenge of taking personal responsibility for their lives. Whodathunk? ;)
Teenagers still don't have the wisdom or experience of someone in their 30s and I would hardly call them 'young adults'.
I knew so many kids that had parents that would treat them like adults..and they still made all of the stupid mistakes as the rest of us.
It's most likely a culture change. So many teenagers are becoming non-social and filling their time with the phone rather than sex.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
(this is not meant to me inflammatory, but rather an honest rumination) Keeping the feminism/SJW/manosphere shenanigans in my peripheral vision, there's been a huge backlash rallying against single mothers in recent years. There's even some anecdotal evidence in dating sites/posts that single mothers are increasingly more open of their demanding that men "man up" and accept another's child/children as part of the pac…
> There's even some anecdotal evidence in dating sites/posts that single mothers are increasingly more open of their demanding that men "man up" and accept another's child/children as part of the package. If you're going to seriously date a single mother, what other option do you have? I'm not suggesting that you meet the kids on the second date, but if you're seriously romantically involved with someone for six mont…
I think the prevailing attitude is to completely disregard single mothers (in spite of their overwhelming numbers) as viable dating candidates to begin with. Women are noticing this, then shaming men with the whole "real men yadda-yadda-yadda..." lists seen on posts.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#194"The first is the most important and may be obvious: Today's teens enjoy better access to contraception and more convenient contraception than their predecessors, and more of them are taking advantage of innovations like long-acting injectable and implantable methods that can last years over a daily birth control pill. But the second cause is something that goes against the conventional wisdom. It's that teens -- des…
You'll have better arguments if you understand why your opponents hold the views they do than if you just stare at them incredulously. Why would anyone be skeptical of contraception? Perhaps because the normalization of contraception has come at the same time as a dramatic increase in single motherhood, from single digits in 1950 to about half of all children today [0]. If we are tempted to think that single motherho…
Maybe you can point to what I said that came across as incredulous staring?
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There's even some anecdotal evidence in dating sites/posts that single mothers are increasingly more open of their demanding that men "man up" and accept another's child/children as part of the package. If you're going to seriously date a single mother, what other option do you have? I'm not suggesting that you meet the kids on the second date, but if you're seriously romantically involved with someone for six mont…
I think the prevailing attitude is to completely disregard single mothers (in spite of their overwhelming numbers) as viable dating candidates to begin with. Women are noticing this, then shaming men with the whole "real men yadda-yadda-yadda..." lists seen on posts.
That interpretation makes a lot of sense.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> now you buy condoms online Mail order condoms was common long before the web was popularized.
Yes, but you still had to get them shipped home, where parents would ask you what you've ordered. Now with amazon it takes 3 clicks, and you can get them delivered to a drop-off location anywhere(at least here in UK I can get amazon parcels delivered to a nearby corner shop for example).
The UK has some free condom services, and these will be available to teens.
http://www.nhs.uk/Service-Search/Free%20condoms/LocationSear...
Teens could get a range of contraception, for free, often without their parent's knowledge.
The rules about whether a child has capacity to make their own decisions around medical procedures - Gillick Competency - is named after Victoria Gillick, who didn't children to be prescribe contraceptive pill without the parent's knowledge.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#197What about the fact that anal sex is now less-taboo than it used to be? Most of my straight friends are having it these days. I can only imagine what teens are doing with their backdoors these days.
Anal sex has got to be the best form of contraception, although it definitely isn't "safe".
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or: Teens are having more sex, but contraceptives are stopping more pregnancies.
(this is not meant to me inflammatory, but rather an honest rumination) Keeping the feminism/SJW/manosphere shenanigans in my peripheral vision, there's been a huge backlash rallying against single mothers in recent years. There's even some anecdotal evidence in dating sites/posts that single mothers are increasingly more open of their demanding that men "man up" and accept another's child/children as part of the pac…
Its basically a dynamic system oscillating and settling into some steady state (until the next shock) where what men want and what women want is rebalanced and more accurately represented.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
You'll have better arguments if you understand why your opponents hold the views they do than if you just stare at them incredulously. Why would anyone be skeptical of contraception? Perhaps because the normalization of contraception has come at the same time as a dramatic increase in single motherhood, from single digits in 1950 to about half of all children today [0]. If we are tempted to think that single motherho…
Maybe you can point to what I said that came across as incredulous staring?
It was the patronizing last line with the capital LOT and italics for effect.
Re: Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe you can point to what I said that came across as incredulous staring?
It was the patronizing last line with the capital LOT and italics for effect.
Hello new player. It sounds like instead of pointing out what was "incredulous staring" you seem instead to have offered a new accusation of "patronizing".