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    Teen Moms: Just a Small Part of Single Mothers

    April 8, 2011 at 2:00 pm

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    On Tuesday, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that U.S. teen birth rates dropped to their lowest rate in decades. According to the report, the number of teenage births has declined by nearly 40 percent in the last 20 years. Of course, this is good news, especially … More

    Fewer Teen Moms but More Babies Born to Single Moms Than Ever

    December 22, 2010 at 1:00 pm

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    Yesterday, The Washington Post heralded the decline in teeth birth rates, stating: As the nation continued to struggle in the recession in 2009, the rate at which U.S. women are having babies continued to fall, pushing the teen birth rate to a record low, federal officials reported Tuesday. While a … More

    Some Good News About Teen Parenthood Rate

    October 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm

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    There is some good news about the rate of teenage parenthood in America. It’s on the decline again. According to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday, between 2007 and 2008, teen birth rates decreased by 2.4 percent. From a long-term perspective, the drop is … More

    Teen Talk: “Defining Up” Expectations of Teens

    September 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm

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    A recent comment by actress Jennifer Aniston that “women are more and more realizing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child” might seem to indicate that deviancy has irrevocably been “defined down” and that a culture of permissiveness has been permanently entrenched in … More

    Understanding Illegitimacy

    April 12, 2010 at 12:03 pm

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    The press has rushed to report a minuscule drop in “teen births” based on data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). As usual, the mainstream media are focusing on a trivial, politically correct story while ignoring the real story buried in the data. Here’s the real story: … More

    What You Won’t Read in the Media about the New Birth Data

    April 8, 2010 at 1:00 pm

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    Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released preliminary U.S. birth data for 2008.  A flurry of news stories followed. Two statistics dominated the headlines: the total number of births fell by 2 percent, after peaking in 2007, and teen birthrates declined as well, reversing a slight two-year … More

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    A Bumper Crop of Food Stamps

    Tweet this Where do food stamps come from? They come from taxpayers—certainly not from family farms. Yet the “farm” bill, a recurring subsidy-fest in Congress, is actually 80 percent food stamps and other government nutrition programs. The food stamps sweeten the farm deal for lawmakers, who admit that the combination … More

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