Teen Girls Raised Without a Father is SEVEN Times

[junglejoe]

More Likely to Get Pregnant. Can You Spot the Risk Factor? Is it odd how Libs seem to think every kid needs the public schools to give them birth control and that all teens are just as likely to get pregnant?Do Libs understand that a parents DO have a HUGE impact on whether or not their daughter gets pregantn?"Teens without fathers were .... seven times more likely to get pregnant as an adolescent."Source: Ellis, Bruce J., John E. Bates, Kenneth A. Dodge, David M. Ferguson, L. John Horwood, Gregory S. Pettit, and Lianne Woodward. “Does Father Absence Place Daughters at Special Risk for Early Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy.” Child Development 74 (May/June 2003): 801-821

[oldbasshole]

WoW ! Are Moms actually 7 times worse at raising little girls ? Wow !

[Jupiter]

Daughters? What about the sons sticking it in the daughters?

[information_police]

Is making comdoms hard to get likely to decrease or increase teen pregnancies?Yes, there is a risk factor for girls raised without a father. I'll bet that boys raised without a father are more like to impregnate a teenage girl, too. Since there are a lot of kids being raised without fathers in the home this is a big problem and the recognition of this problem is what leads to these birth control programs.

[dkstringer24]

Do conservatives understand that you can't make a law that forces parents to talk to their kids about sex? Or stay married? Or that we've tried "abstinence only" for the past 4000 years or so and it doesn't work?

[slykitty62]

Short of forcing people to stay married no matter the situation, how do you propose to make sure this happens? Yes, it is more likely. Therefore, those girls should have access to birth control so they don't bring an unwanted child into the world. No one is saying we need to hand out birth control to each girl as they walk through the door on the way to class. But just have it available for those who seek it out at a place accessible to them only makes sense.

[White Star]

So we should make a law forcing the courts to give daughters to fathers, no matter how violent or abusive they are. Great choice. Let me tell you one thing. If my sister had stayed with her father (whom was a drunk, adulterer, child abuser, and a Conservative former army solider), she would not have been pregnant at the age of 17 (and shes Conservative) she would have been dead around the age of 5.Also as Crabby mentioned, which states has the highest divorce rates?

[clint_slicker]

The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $9 billion annually.Thirty-one percent of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20. Eight in ten of these pregnancies are unintended.Three-quarters of teen girls and eight in 10 boys use some method of contraception (usually a condom) the first time they have sex. A sexually active teen who does not use contraception has a 90 percent chance of pregnancy within one year.The problem seems to be that children aren't being told about or using contraception. Since churches dislike the use of contraception and try abstinent (which is rarely followed) the lack of knowledge or embarrassed in using contraception that the child gets from there parent is the main fault. Schools need to be brought in to teach better sex education classes than abstinent.Sources: Hoffman, Saul, Ph.D. (2006). By the Numbers: the Public Cost of Teen Childbearing. The Guttmacher Institute. (2006) U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics National and State Trends and Trends by Race and Ethnicity.