Are you embarrassed by this?
http://www.cnn.com/...births.ap/index.html
To summarize the article states that pregnancy rates for 10-14 year old americans has fallen 38% since 1994 even though the age group has grown by 16%. In 1994 12,901 pregnancies were reported in 2003 the number fell to 7,900.
Is this something that we should be proud of? I am embarrassed and ashamed that babies are having babies. I understand that kids are growing up faster these days but this is ridiculous.
Where are the parents of these kids? Am I out of touch with reality? Is this a vicious circle in that kids who had kids are having kids who have kids? Are these parents grandparents at the ripe old age of 28?
I am getting married next summer and planning on having our first child in 2006. She will not be allowed to date, let alone have sex, until she turns twenty or I am dead, whichever comes first.
http://www.cnn.com/...births.ap/index.html
To summarize the article states that pregnancy rates for 10-14 year old americans has fallen 38% since 1994 even though the age group has grown by 16%. In 1994 12,901 pregnancies were reported in 2003 the number fell to 7,900.
Is this something that we should be proud of? I am embarrassed and ashamed that babies are having babies. I understand that kids are growing up faster these days but this is ridiculous.
Where are the parents of these kids? Am I out of touch with reality? Is this a vicious circle in that kids who had kids are having kids who have kids? Are these parents grandparents at the ripe old age of 28?
I am getting married next summer and planning on having our first child in 2006. She will not be allowed to date, let alone have sex, until she turns twenty or I am dead, whichever comes first.