Abstinence only: interesting findings
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yea I believe they still do it.
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That was like 10 years ago...one color symbolized going to first base, another for 2nd base, and so on...the girls would wear them to brag about their sexual status. Some few links about it...
snopes.com: Sex Bracelets
Kids wearing Rubber "sex bracelets"
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I'm not sure but I think different color represents the length of ---- (years?) of being "sex-free." and there's a color that says the person's a virgin.
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oh woops.... I misunderstood.... I thought you were talking about abstinence bracelet. Now that's crazy.... the bracelet representing how far they went? :-o
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It was a big thing in the late 90s and early 2000s....
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ought to be banned
It made the national news, I think and got banned but people forget easily or the next generation will think of something else...
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Mississippi now has highest teen birth rate
New CDC report finds significant increases in 26 states
ATLANTA - Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says.
Mississippi’s rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen birth rate for that year in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.
The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers — groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted.
The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where three states have rates at roughly half the national average, which is 42 births per 1,000 teen women.
Statistical blip?
It’s not clear why Mississippi, with 68 births per 1,000, surged into first place. The state’s one-year increase of nearly 1,000 teen births could be a statistical blip, said Ron Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on children’s health statistics.
The New Mexico rate was 64 per 1,000; Texas was 63. New Hampshire, with a rate of 19 per 1,000, was the nation’s lowest.
More than a year ago, a preliminary report on the 2006 data revealed that the U.S. teen birth rate had risen for the first time in about 15 years. But the new numbers provide the first state-by-state breakdown.
The new report is based on a review of all the birth certificates in 2006. Significant increases in teen birth rates were noted in 26 states.
“It’s pretty much across the board” nationally, said Brady Hamilton, a CDC statistician who worked on the report.
About 435,000 of the nation’s 4.3 million births in 2006 were to mothers ages 15 through 19. That was about 21,000 more teen births than in 2005.
Numerically, the largest increases were in the states with the largest populations. California, Texas and Florida together generated almost 30 percent of the nation’s extra teen births in 2006.
Blaming abstinence-only education
Some experts have blamed the national increase on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception. They said that would explain why teen birth rate increases have been detected across much of the country and not just in a few spots.
There is debate about that, however. Some conservative organizations have argued that contraceptive-focused sex education is still common, and that the new teen birth numbers reflect it is failing.
Other factors include the escalating cost of some types of birth control and their unavailability in some communities, said Stephanie Birch, who directs maternal and child health programs for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
Glowing media portrayals of celebrity pregnancies don’t help, either, she said. “They make it out to be very glamorous,” said Birch, who cited a calculation by Alaska officials that teen births were up 6 percent in that state in 2006.
Mississippi now has highest teen birth rate - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
New CDC report finds significant increases in 26 states
ATLANTA - Mississippi now has the nation’s highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says.
Mississippi’s rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen birth rate for that year in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.
The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic teenagers — groups that traditionally have higher birth rates, experts noted.
The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where three states have rates at roughly half the national average, which is 42 births per 1,000 teen women.
Statistical blip?
It’s not clear why Mississippi, with 68 births per 1,000, surged into first place. The state’s one-year increase of nearly 1,000 teen births could be a statistical blip, said Ron Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on children’s health statistics.
The New Mexico rate was 64 per 1,000; Texas was 63. New Hampshire, with a rate of 19 per 1,000, was the nation’s lowest.
More than a year ago, a preliminary report on the 2006 data revealed that the U.S. teen birth rate had risen for the first time in about 15 years. But the new numbers provide the first state-by-state breakdown.
The new report is based on a review of all the birth certificates in 2006. Significant increases in teen birth rates were noted in 26 states.
“It’s pretty much across the board” nationally, said Brady Hamilton, a CDC statistician who worked on the report.
About 435,000 of the nation’s 4.3 million births in 2006 were to mothers ages 15 through 19. That was about 21,000 more teen births than in 2005.
Numerically, the largest increases were in the states with the largest populations. California, Texas and Florida together generated almost 30 percent of the nation’s extra teen births in 2006.
Blaming abstinence-only education
Some experts have blamed the national increase on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception. They said that would explain why teen birth rate increases have been detected across much of the country and not just in a few spots.
There is debate about that, however. Some conservative organizations have argued that contraceptive-focused sex education is still common, and that the new teen birth numbers reflect it is failing.
Other factors include the escalating cost of some types of birth control and their unavailability in some communities, said Stephanie Birch, who directs maternal and child health programs for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
Glowing media portrayals of celebrity pregnancies don’t help, either, she said. “They make it out to be very glamorous,” said Birch, who cited a calculation by Alaska officials that teen births were up 6 percent in that state in 2006.
Mississippi now has highest teen birth rate - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
that's why they're jerks and will remain jerks for rest of their life. you know what's the payback? child support.
*LMAO Jiro*
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Sex bracelets were never popular outside of a small number of schools. The only reason most of us know about it is because of fox news.
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Sources: Obama may quickly reverse abortion policy
good! now we're going step FORWARD, not backward.
good! now we're going step FORWARD, not backward.
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yeah i remember i had tons of those color brackets, most black. that was over 20 years ago for me.
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Absolutely!!! Change we need.
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I find revoking policies that were put in place to discourage the murder of fetuses, regardless of the implementers' poor way of doing it, a step backwards to the time of Rome and before.
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Then perhaps you should go back and re-read. That is not what is being revoked.
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Last I've read was than teen pregnancy was up 40%....!!!!.....that was approx. 1 month ago....I believe sex education begins in the home, church and at school...
My 17 yr. old son admitted to the doctor that he had unprotected sex...and I immediately had him tested for STD's and HIV....I admit, I was devastated! A box of condoms in his room (hidden) and one in his wallet...and countless discussions about teen sex.....I felt like a failure!...And called my son "a JERK!"
He was clean!....And grounded for 1 month!...I agree, that teens will have sex, regardless!....I notified my son's girlfriend's parents...and she was not on any type of birth control! They "assured" me that would take her to the doctor and get her on birth control.
I have 2 more sons coming up, 14 and 12 ...and make it a point at least once a month....to "steer a conversation" towards teen sex. I try to keep things open and above, not hidden!....And I do a lot of "praying"!!
My 17 yr. old son admitted to the doctor that he had unprotected sex...and I immediately had him tested for STD's and HIV....I admit, I was devastated! A box of condoms in his room (hidden) and one in his wallet...and countless discussions about teen sex.....I felt like a failure!...And called my son "a JERK!"
He was clean!....And grounded for 1 month!...I agree, that teens will have sex, regardless!....I notified my son's girlfriend's parents...and she was not on any type of birth control! They "assured" me that would take her to the doctor and get her on birth control.
I have 2 more sons coming up, 14 and 12 ...and make it a point at least once a month....to "steer a conversation" towards teen sex. I try to keep things open and above, not hidden!....And I do a lot of "praying"!!
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I would rather to find a box a condom in my sons room, that is having sex, knowing he was being smart by choosing to use protection.
Than finding out that he was having, unprotected sex.