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More teens became smart and self aware enough to not get pregnant in so young age by effectively using different types of contraception. And guy says that this is a bad thing. What?
This is the same group that decries teen mothers who are Black as burdens on the system and trying to cheat welfare by having more babies because more babies means a bigger welfare check that they can spend on lobster, fur coats, and Cadillacs.
Sooo more life destroying, unplanned underage pregnancies?
They need more poor kids from broken homes to feed their slave pens (prison).
Sick pro-pedophilia bastard
Let's just break this down as a little reminder:
I am a little confused why everyone is forgetting that teens have sex with other teens. >.>
It’s not creepy for an 18 year old to have sex with an 18 year old.
I didn't forget, but it is old white men hyper about this, and considering how many old white men are creepy around teens, suddenly being interested in them getting pregnant is extremely creepy.
Teens will always have sex, sure, although many fewer are as compared to previous decades. I'm not so worried about them.
Also… do we REALLY want teens getting pregnant?
That is just being racist as countless studies show this is a human race issue not a white men only.
Blocked. I don't fuck around with white supremacist bullshit.
In brief, the people I'm talking about ARE almost all old white men. It just shows who you are that you leap to defend them.
That is projection on your part as I am in no way defending that group, more pointing out that is not exclusive to one race or another and calling it out like you did is just racist. Calling out the sociopaths and psychopaths who tend to get into leadership positions is what we need to do and not an entire group of people most of which are just living there lives peacefully. People who are behaving horribly need to be brought to justice, all of them, regardless of race as they are in every single race and are THE thorn in the backside of humanity.
Nowhere in the US can 15 year olds legally consent to sex. The age of consent is 16, 17, or 18 depending on the state. This moron is literally supporting child rape.
They can consent to other 15 year olds
didnt know that (im not in amerikkka so idk the details of their laws)
Need more teen parents to make vulnerable children for the pedo conservatives.
"Pedophilia has been trending downward since epstien files were mentioned..."
I get the sentiment, but this is much more likely due to teenagers smartening up about sex with other teenagers.
Remember when they said that sex ed would increase teen pregnancies? And now they're low enough, because of sex ed, that they have to tell kids how fun it is to fuck without condoms
Its a a big fucking circle jerk
Just makes us easier to subjugate.
Teen moms are way more likely to drop out of school, which kind of snowballs into lower paying jobs, more financial stress, higher poverty rates, that whole thing. There are also real health risks involved, especially if she's younger, stuff like preeclampsia and anemia are more common, and sadly maternal mortality is higher too. A lot of teen moms also end up pregnant again within a couple years, and depression and anxiety are pretty common outcomes as well.
For the kid, preterm birth and low birth weight are more likely, and as they grow up there tend to be more developmental and behavioral challenges on average. One of the more striking stats is that daughters of teen moms are significantly more likely to become teen moms themselves, and that cycle is really hard to break.
Dads kind of get left out of the research, but the data that exists shows they face a lot of the same economic and educational setbacks, and they're less likely to stay involved with the child long term.
Well tell them to be more sexy.
WTAF. 15-19. That is some very weird shit.
Because they very much are.
They are the party of the pedo-in-chief. Of Bannon. Of Stephen Miller. Of Peter Thiel. Of Musk. Of Curtis Yarvin. The authors of The Sovereign Individual and The Unhumans.
What the actual fuck
actual fuck
arguably literally yes
💀
“You really aughta get busy with kids before y’all start figuring out how fucked you are under this regime.”
If you watch the video, it's much less strange in context (in fact, it's not strange at all, although the guy himself is a religious crackpot). The reason he mentions "15 to 19" at all is because that's a specific demographic in a statistic that he used, among other things, to suggest that people are having kids much later than they used to, but he doesn't specifically talk about declining teen pregnancy like it's a bad thing. Like seriously, watch the video; I don't know what the fuck Mediaite is doing with this headline except for ragebait. I genuinely thought there would be even a little hint of weirdness, but no?? Somebody else please watch the clip and tell me what they think is wrong with it re: teen pregnancies.
The clip is 2:08 long; I encourage anyone who thinks this is bullshit apologia to watch it. I'm legitimately shocked that I'm having to defend something someone said on Fox News. The whole time watching it I was wondering when they were going to get to the shocking, deranged part.
(Side note: the host looks like a bootleg Rhea Seehorn.)
Edit: The Mediaite transcript of the quote below is wrong in a subtle but, I think, very important way. Please see edit in comment below.
Kinda puts the abstinence only sex ed in a different light. I guess we were just supposed to push out babies and live in trailers the whole time.
I don't get what is so fucking hard for these pedophile conservative fucks to understand. When you make life fucking impossible to live, no one wants to bring a child into the world.
Instead, their response is, "if we fuck children, we can raise the birth rate."
Fuck these ghouls. They just all need to die already.
Fuck these ghouls
Absolutely not.
Also I'm not young enough for them apparently.
"Not enough teenagers are being locked into poverty with unwanted children. This is bad for the oligarchs."
I have a female coworker and her daughter is currently eight months pregnant at 14 with a 17-year-old father. She couldn’t be happier. She is also a hardcore republican and a diehard Trump supporter.
Ruin your kids life early that is the republican motto. Trap them in never ending wage slavery.
I don't like your coworker.
I'm going nuts. I'm from Russia, and Russian officials say insane stuff, and then I read news from the US, and it's the same shit, side view.
Why? Its insane, and it only gets worse. When I lived in the US during Tramp's first term, it wasn't that crazy, despite having+- same names in high places. Now, it's like another country, and too much alike my insane motherland. USA, you're becoming what you hate the most!
Looneytunes, all of them. ☠️
Excuse me while I go barf.
They truly want a third world economy
A third world economy is quite nice for the folks on top. Until they’re deposed and replaced.
He's advocating for girls under 18 to have children? 18 is the age of majority. If he's advocating for sexual contact with children, he needs to be put on a list.
The replacement rate is down to 1.56, meaning every couple is having, on average, 1.56 children in the United States. We need two or above to keep the population at the same amount.
There's actually another way to keep the population up, and it's great for America economically and culturally, and it makes the world a better place at the same time.
"We beat teen pregnancy!" - "Oh no!"
Elaborated: "Oh no! Fewer poverty-locked consumer slaves! Who do we convince breast feeding is unhealthy and peddle formula to? How will we paint immigration as a bad thing if unemployment goes down? What if - heaven forbid - social mobility goes up?"
