Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50 percent decline among Hispanics and blacks
Source: Washington Post
Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50 percent decline among Hispanics and blacks
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
April 28 at 3:18 PM
The birth rate among American teenagers, at crisis levels in the 1990s, has fallen to an all-time low, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The decline of the past decade has occurred in all regions in the country and among all races. But the most radical changes have been among Hispanic and black teens, whose birth rates have dropped nearly 50 percent since 2006.
Theories on the reasons for the dramatic shift include everything from new approaches to sex education to the widespread availability of broadband Internet. But most experts agree on the two major causes.
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 -- despite their portrayal in popular TV and movies as uninhibited and acting only on hormones -- are having less sex.
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(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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LynneSin
(95,337 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)PSPS
(13,598 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)I thought the release of the information was newsworthy. If the mods deem it more analytic than newsy, I've already started an identical thread at GD. I'll ask them now.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)as a part of a robust program of sexual education with teaching of scientific information on the subject of procreation and the various means available to make impregnation less probable, including any and all means to terminate any pregnancy as safely as modern medicine will allow, if that is the mother's desire.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)I look at it as good, better, best education. We tell our kids they shouldn't drink, but we also tell them if they do drink, do not drive or get in a car where the driver has been drinking. Abstinence is the only 100% way to not get pregnant or an STD, but if they're going to have sex, they need fact based education on preventing them.
JI7
(89,249 posts)The way people are stuck to their phones. Taking and showing pics and getting likes, compliments etc fulfills something for many.
To busy showing off to others including most who they don't even personally know to actually spend time with others and get to know them
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)That's the media narrative about it. Try thinking about it in this direction:
They're controlling how THEY want to be viewed by the world, the image they want to present.
A lot of them are just doing it for very narcissistic reasons to be sure, just like any large group. But also realize that for a lot of kids this is a very empowering tool.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Reading breeds knowledge. Ignorance just breeds.
LS_Editor
(893 posts)fred v
(271 posts)...to mourn the death of two GOP talking points.
democrank
(11,094 posts)Whatever the reasons, I hope it continues.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)It has slowed down the formation of families ever since man started living in communities bigger that 50.
"Albert and other experts think the economic downturn that started around 2006-2007 may have played a role, too. They are not checking their stock portfolio before they hop in the sack, but teens are keen observers of the world around them, and if their own family had to do more with less it may have fostered less risk-taking and a more cautious attitude about sex,."
If you look back through the years, when the economy goes south so do marriages, new families and pregnancies.