What is the percentage of teen pregnancies in the United States

What is the percentage of teen pregnancies in the United States?

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The U.S. has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world as one-third of girls get pregnant before the age of 20.

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What is the percentage of teen pregnancies in the United States?

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A: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf

Who doesn’t think abortion rates are “over the top”?

Q: I googled “abortion statistics in the United States”. Here are a few of the top results the computer pulled up:this one is, at least, unbiased, at least, as far as I can tell:http://www.mccl.org/Page.aspx?pid=400this one talks about the increasing percentages of unwanted pregnancies, as well as who is getting pregnant:http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.htmlthis one is admittedly a pro-life site, but does have some interesting information on it:http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/facts/abortionstats.htmlanother interesting site:http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/facts/abortionstats.htmlthis one is a bit graphic, but maybe worth a glance:http://www.abortionno.org/index.php/abortion_facts.;,lI know…most of them are pro-life sources, and I was specifically hunting an unbiased source.Anyway, it does look as if over a million abortions are being done every year in the United States.Again…does anybody really think that there were that many “coat hangar” abortions before Roe vs Wade?Yes, there were kids that got pregnant. But, even accounting for the fact that there were fewer people then, I don’t think there were that many teen pregnancies, and definitely not as many std’s.It wasn’t all that unusual to be a virgin bride in the 60s…and even the early 70s, and it was considered a “special” thing.What happened?

A: Wow that’s really really sad. I don’t know what else I can say. We kill a large city of people every year before they even take a breath. That is really really sad.

I’m 15 years old…and I have some…unusaul ideas about taking over America, what do you think about them?

Q: Lately, I’ve bee having thoughts about taking over America and…rebuilding it. Why? Because America is going down the drain economically, politically and etc. Economically, we’ve become too dependent upon imported goods a fair amount of them from China, and we’re especially too dependent on oil. As of January 30, 2008, the total U.S. federal debt was approximately $9.20 trillion. And the American dollar is gradually decreasing in it’s worlwide value. Politcal parties are doing nothing but dividing our country and it’s making us weak, plus there’s a fair amout of internal corruption and some politicians are sinking to new lows just to get votes and etc. The government is constantly hiding stuff from the American people, they’ve probably already found cures for some diseases ad sicknesses but just haven’t revealed it since thousands of doctors would likely lose their jobs. Our military is being exhausted on this War on Terrorism. Our health is slowly decreasing and obesity percentages are increasing every year. Pollution and deforestation is still a prblem in the USA. The American Academy of Pediatrics has identified the sexual behaviors of American adolescents as a “major public health problem”, and there is a strong correlation between early sexual activity and engaging in other risky behaviors. Every year, an estimated 1 in 4 sexually active teens contracts an STD, and teen pregnancy is 2 to 10 times more prevalent in the United States than in other similarly developed countries. Although early sexual activity may be caused by a variety of factors, the media are believed to play a significant role.[According to journalism professor and media critic Jane Brown, since adolescents see so much sex in the media it is piquing their interest in sex at ages younger than they have traditionally been. But anyways, it just makes me…ANGRY. So angry that i wanna start a violent (if that’s necessary) revolution agaist America, take it over, burn or take most of it’s historical documents and rewrite them, put some new laws into affect, and get America back on it’s feet so what do you think?

A: I understand your anger and frustration. The adults of the country are having same frustrations as well.Unfortunately – fixing these problems will not be easy. Take the teen pregnancy rates, sexual activity rates and the diseases that follow those who are contributing to the high rates. These are not things that the government can change – the people must change on a grass roots level as it is cultural in nature. Kids have received the message since somewhere in the 80s that it is ok to be promiscuous – and it is perfectly fine to have children with “unknown” as a father on a birth certificate. This is very low class thinking – disrespectful to society who must foot the bill, disrespectful to self, and most certainly disrespectful to a child who is being cheated out his/her own lineage on the side of the father. It is also cheating young men out of the opportunity to raise their own children, instead of being treated as a monthly check for a child born because the mother refused to take birth control.Exactly how will over throwing a government exact the necessary social changes in this instance? How will burning our sacred historical documents, and rewriting them with fictious data help the kids of today decide to stay celibate until at least reaching maturity?Our problems our many – and they are problems not easily overcome. Being an advocate for social change in your world – as in your high school, church or other organization (seek parental permission first) is better idea. Social change for the betterment for all is done one person at a time…. It is a matter of applying peer pressure in a positive manner instead of a negative manner.