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How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy

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Re: How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy

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Post by rbanffy »

meagain20000 wrote: post #25
hkmurakami wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iirc (from the talk) a mission to Mars will cost a few trillion dollars (I forgot the exact figure, but somewhere between $1T and $10T). That's a lot more than Hollywood storytelling.

Maybe with current technology. But as technology continues to advance things will continue to get cheaper. What costs a trillion dollars today could cost a couple billion dollars in a not so distant future

Technology does not advance in a vacuum (pun intended). When you say that you are ignoring that the technology advanced because some of those trillions were spent in research, even though the research has more goals than enabling a manned mission to Mars.

Re: How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy

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Post by unclebucknasty »

Interestingly, the rates of vaginal intercourse among teens don't seem to have been explored as part of the study. Don't see that mentioned in the discussion here either.

Seems an important question. Are they actually getting pregnant less per occurrence of vaginal intercourse, or are they simply having less vaginal intercourse?

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Post by CaptSpify »

pasbesoin wrote: post #39
nommm-nommm wrote: post #14

The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is falling dramatically. It just reached a historic low and has dropped by 61% since 1991. However, nobody really knows why. Theres a lot of hypothesises going around (this being one) but the real reason is probably a combination of many factors. There is probably a positive feedback effect going on as well, lowering teen pregnancy leads to even lower teen pregnancy. I rea…

Pure speculation. 1) Internet, followed by 2) Ubiquitous smart phones making it to teenagers -- and/or the laptops that also seem to be ubiquitous in education, these days. A personal place to look things up, less monitored than the family or library computer. (So, the other side of the "porn epidemic"? To be clear, not attributing porn per se, but rather range of information available to those who seek it out.)

private incognito searching? I'd agree. I'd never have looked up something like that when we had a "shared" computer in our living room. But if I'd had my own device? absolutely

Re: How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy

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Post by CaptSpify »

gdwatson wrote: post #26
swegg wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being misinformed due to the 'abstinence only' sex-ed. I wouldn't blame it on the teen, but on the education system, or the teen's parents who can't be bothered to teach birds and bees.

Misinformed how? It's not as if abstinence-only education claims babies come by stork.

I was also taught: never carry a condom, because then you might be tempted to have sex. Instead of understanding that it's going to happen anyway, they teach that it shouldn't happen, so don't prepare for it.

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Post by tricolon »

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #24
nommm-nommm wrote: post #14

The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is falling dramatically. It just reached a historic low and has dropped by 61% since 1991. However, nobody really knows why. Theres a lot of hypothesises going around (this being one) but the real reason is probably a combination of many factors. There is probably a positive feedback effect going on as well, lowering teen pregnancy leads to even lower teen pregnancy. I rea…

Yeah in the 90s a friend of mine wanted to get an IUD but her gynecologist objected on the grounds that they were not appropriate for young women. I wonder if the technology changed, or just the doctrine.

Just three years ago, someone I knew had to find another gynecologist for the same reason.
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