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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The pregnancy rate among teenage girls in the United States has jumped for the first time in more than a decade -- increasing three percent among 15-to-19-year-olds between 2005 and 2006. "It could be a lot of things coming together," said Rebecca Maynard, a professor of economics and social policy at the University of Pennsylvania. "This may or may not be a sustained rise."

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"This clearly can be traced back to early tag-playing and school cafeteria cupcakes."

--Truthy

so you have nothing to add to the conversation. Ok fine, now go away little person and let the adults take care of things.

Let me be clear, those boys need to warp their packages before delivering their load. -Joe Biden

I don't think Joe Biden even remembers how his "pacakage" works. It was such a loooooong time ago.....

"Let me be clear, those boys need to warp their packages before delivering their load. -Joe Biden"

#3 | Posted by wisgod at 2010-01-26 03:12 PM | Reply | Flag: Bad Advice --- but only to Serial Masturbators

I don't think Joe Biden even remembers how his "pacakage" works. It was such a loooooong time ago.....
#4 | Posted by member2586 at 2010-01-26 03:15 PM | Reply | Flag: Apparently Spends Time Contemplating What Biden can do with his Junk

#3 | Posted by wisgod

And what would be wrong with telling boys to wear a condom?

This is the problem with abstinenc only sex education, that the wing dings beleive that by telling teenagers "dont have sex" they won't have sex.

Just another example of the failure that was GW Bush.

Let's keep up the abstinence only education. I think its working!
-The Right

This is the problem with abstinenc only sex education, that the wing dings beleive that by telling teenagers "dont have sex" they won't have sex.

#7 | Posted by 726 at 2010-01-26 03:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

This is the problem with hand out only entitlement programs for the poor, the libtards believe that by giving people money they will want to help themselves.

Personal Responsibility - an enemy of the left for over 40 years.

W. controlled sex ed all the way down to the state, county, district and township level.

Damn, he was one powerful dude. O'bama can't even control Joe B.

Here, I thought they'd be blaming the media, or the parents, or the kids?

And what would be wrong with telling boys to wear a condom?

Posted by 726

Nothing. When is the great Speechifier gonna tell the his people?

I don't think Joe Biden even remembers how his "pacakage" works. It was such a loooooong time ago.....

member(?)2586

found memories i'm guessing

gonna tell the his people?

#12 | Posted by wisgod at

I wish Obama would set up some town halls and only invite slack jawed sister fuckers. He's bright enough to answer any "question" that they can throw at him. It would only be a matter of minutes untill someone holding a poster of the white house with a water mellon patch laid out in front of it screamed "GET YOUR BLACK ASS OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE!!!"

Winning is easy if you want to win.

LOL, yeah, I'm sure teenagers all over America don't know what a condom is. Damn abstinence only sex education! Lax attitudes toward sex and poverty have nothing to do with it!

I was NOWHERE near any of them

wisgod
"and only invite slack jawed sister fuckers"

Somehow you think that this is better than being racist toward Obama. The difference is that you are the only one doing it jackass. You are the problem.

Where does all this "abstinence only" sex education bullshit come from? Do you have any proof whatsoever that any school ever used it? If you do, it better be 90% of the countries schools at least. It's just another libtard yapping point isn't it? Here's an idea, don't expect the state to raise your kids for you, try that once.

Lax attitudes toward sex and poverty have nothing to do with it!

Other the increase in poverty under Dubya, not much change between 2005 and 2006. But what's Bristol's excuse?

As for the right's role-they ran the funding:
To underwrite Choosing the Best programs, many organizations apply for one or more of three types of federal funding earmarked for abstinence-until-marriage education (known legislatively as "abstinence-only.") Established in Section 510 of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, abstinence education is run through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is known popularly as A-H, for its eight defining characteristics:

1. has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity;
2. teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children;
3. teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;
4. teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity;
5. teaches that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects;
6. teaches that bearing children out of wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child's parents, and society;
7. teaches young people how to reject sexual advances and how alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to sexual advances; and
8. teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency before engaging in sexual activity.

Any group may apply for the following federal funds, which are NOT faith-based:
Title V

* Federal government provides $50 million annually as state-allocated funds.
* Requires state matching funds.
* No funded program can be incompatible with A-H.
* Funding does not require equal emphasis of each A-H point.
* Programs must target those most likely to experience out-of-wedlock pregnancy

Damn, I wonder what is causing that!

"It could be a lot of things coming together," said Rebecca Maynard, a professor of economics

One thing, really, if you think about it.

Ok fine, now go away little person and let the adults take care of things.

#2 | Posted by truthhurts

You are a dip fuck.

Personal Responsibility - an enemy of the left for over 40 years.

#10 | Posted by ELCIDCE90 at 2010-01-26 04:33 PM | Reply

You mean like Rudy "No attack in US under George Bush" Guiliani?

Like all the righttards blaming the Dems for not blocking the republics from running up $10 trillion in debt?

Just how is teaching teenagers about safe sex not allowing them to take responsibility? Jesus give them the tools to allow them to be responsible. But I suppose it is much better to leave them ignorant and horny then yell at them when a bastard child is born, maybe even equate them to stray animals. Unless your mom is the governor of Alaska.

Reality and the right just don't mix.

I was NOWHERE near any of them


Thank GOd for court orders.

You mean like Rudy "No attack in US under George Bush" Guiliani?

Rudy is not a conservative - want to try for the daily double - GW was not a conservative - how about a complete three strike at bat - total list of conservatives blaming the dems for not blocking spending=0.

Reality and the left = only works after a few bong hits - just ask DANNI.

The article's omission about gay sexual congress
is homophobic in nature and quite offensive.

Where are the gay and transgendered teens?
Why does society pretend that they don't exist?

Be Well.

The 'Be Like Bristol' campaign has shown impressive results.

Personal Responsibility - an enemy of the left for over 40 years.

Coming from a loyalist of the Bart Simpson Presidency.
Or to paraphrase el squid-"No one could have predicted not teaching about birth control could lead to more pregnancies."

The 'Be Like Bristol' campaign has shown impressive results.

#28 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

FF.

Teen pregnancies increased when Dumbya and his "abstinance only" version of sex ed was in it's heyday?

Qu'elle farkin' sooprize!

To be fair though, 2005 was the year that Levi Johnston went on a road trip across the continental US so that prolly affected the curve significantly.

Be Well.

Where does all this "abstinence only" sex education bullshit come from? Do you have any proof whatsoever that any school ever used it? If you do, it better be 90% of the countries schools at least. It's just another libtard yapping point isn't it? Here's an idea, don't expect the state to raise your kids for you, try that once.

#19 | Posted by Hoopido at 2010-01-27 01:13 PM

Yeah really. Again, I highly doubt you could find more than a single teenager in this country that wasn't homeschooled or in special ed who doesn't know what a condom is and how to put it on.

Um - is anyone here brave enough to admit that teen pregnancies represent a failure of both right and left?

The right preaches abstinence, which is obviously not working any better for teens than it is for Congressmen.

The left says, "It's all right, little mother, here are your entitlements."

If either party had any balls, the message would be, "Use a condom, you little jerks, because you have to flip a hell of a lot of burgers to pay for a baby and its day care, which you will have to do yourself, because we ain't gonna."

System broke. Fail. Epic fail. Both sides. Rant over.

#29 | Posted by northguy3 at 2010-01-27 02:40 PM

FF, North...

Somehow you think that this is better than being racist toward Obama. The difference is that you are the only one doing it jackass. You are the problem.

#18 | Posted by Hoopido

What the hell and who are you babbling about?

More sluts? :-D

#29 | Posted by northguy3 at 2010-01-27 02:40 PM | Reply | Flag: Uses own form of birth control - his looks and personality.

Once again, the left has nowhere to go but - YOU CANNOT DO THIS YOURSELF, LET THE GOVERNMENT HELP YOU. Same story with the blacks, gays or any other "victimized" minority - the left NEEDS a group to be dependant on government, not themselves, or their whole agenda of a nanny state fails.

Teaching abstinence alongside other forms of birth control is and should be a no-brainer. Parents teaching this is mandatory. Schools - NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.

#36 | Posted by ELCIDCE90 at 2010-01-27 03:50 PM
***"Teaching abstinence alongside other forms of birth control is and should be a no-brainer. Parents teaching this is mandatory. Schools - NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY."

Well, that's so utopian of you!!!

Unfortunately, as history teaches us and as the numbers also show: the groups at risk to be sexually active teens (minorities and the poor) WON'T teach their children about contraceptives, much less abstinence. So, if we are to effectively address the social problem of teen pregnancy, we WILL have to by-pass the parent in these situations as we do with math, spelling, social studies, etc.

I would think that a "fiscal (only waste money on our agenda) conservative" would be all for this, as the groups at highest risk are those that your ilk complains are milking the system by having welfare babies and abortions...

First y'all bitch about welfare leaches and fetus-cide, and then y'all want to breed more into the system through ignorance...

Talk about your convoluted agendas...

All of the abstinence cheerleaders need to give themselves a big fucking pat on the back for a job well done. Way to go, chumps!

Um - is anyone here brave enough to admit that teen pregnancies represent a failure of both right and left?
(yada yada yada yada)
System broke. Fail. Epic fail. Both sides. Rant over.

#32 | POSTED BY MARYTYLERWHORE AT 2010-01-27 02:56 PM

It is not a left problem... in the industrialized culturally permissive countries where everyone has entitlements... medical, education etc... like Holland... they have the lowest teen pregnancy rates. Perhaps we should try a little leftist tactics because it is obvious... there is no "right" method that works...

Besides it is unnatural (i.e. goes against nature ergo... God's plan)for collective groups of humans to not have a socialized underpinning to their society... and it isn't called "marriage between one man and one woman".

#37 | Posted by Capt_Of_Uranus at 2010-01-27 04:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

A liberal calling personal responsibilty utopian! Go figure. On the other hand - free healthcare.....an obvious utopia.

and it isn't called "marriage between one man and one woman".

#39 | Posted by rightistrite at 2010-01-27 04:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

BIG FAIL

The family unit is the building block for the underpinning of society - fuck with that, as the liberals have, and you get what we got. Keep saying bad behaviors are ok and you remove the stigma of them being bad - its ok to get pregnant out of wedlock, ok to cheat on your spouse, ok to toke up every now and then, ok to stick it to your employer....or whatever selfish behavior liberals are pushing this week.

Republicans who choose these behaviors after condemning them are the worst offenders and public confidence in anything they say should be lost.

Marriage is not for everyone - obviously. Heterosexuality is not for everyone - again obviously. To say that marriage between one man and one woman is not the ideal underpinning is absurd. History proves otherwise as all great societies begin their fall when God and the family is taken out of their foundation.

#40 | Posted by ELCIDCE90 at 2010-01-27 04:28 PM ***"A liberal calling personal responsibilty utopian! Go figure. On the other hand - free healthcare.....an obvious utopia"

No, I said expecting parents (especially poor, and/or uneducated, and/or minority) to teach their children is "utopian". Not only is it "utopian", it is also ignorant; history and statistics back me up on this...

But, I understand that when lacking a coherent argument, you jump immediately to mischaracterizations and insults; it's the Republican way: Beck, O'Reilly, Rush, etc, etc...

Bullshit.. marriage has taken on may forms.. go ahead... check your biblical references... and it has even been nothing more than a contractual agreement between families or even governments to establish blood ties not the crowning achievement of a moral society.

There is plenty of immorality around the act of marriage... lots of abortions... teen pregnancies... theft.. war... rape... murder...etc etc etc

#41 | Posted by ELCIDCE90 at 2010-01-27 04:34 PM
***"History proves otherwise as all great societies begin their fall when God and the family is taken out of their foundation"

OMG... You really have absolutely -0- idea of what you're spewing do you???

"Imperialism" is the downfall of most cultures in history. Being on either side of "imperialism"; whether you're the imperialist, spreading resources too thin, or the culture being absorbed by the "impertialists", it is "imperialism" that has ended the reign of most cultures throughout history...

Man, you Republicans and your Faux-Facts...


So if a man is given an 8 year old girl in marriage... and he has sex with her.. (it happens every day among religiously conservative groups)... does the act of marriage nullify the pedophilia?

Interesting factoid.... its more likely an adult man getting the girl pregnant than her peers.

National Center for Health Statistics found that about two-thirds of births to teenage girls in the United States are fathered by adult men age 20 or older.
The Guttmacher Institute reports that over 40 percent of mothers aged 1517 had sexual partners three to five years older and almost one in five had partners six or more years older.
A 1990 study of births to California teens reported that the younger the mother, the greater the age gap with her male partner.
In the UK 72% of jointly registered births to women under the age of 20, the father is over the age of 20, with almost 1 in 4 being over 25.

"More Teens Getting Pregnant"

Sadly, I've had nothing to do with it.

"It is not a left problem... in the industrialized culturally permissive countries where everyone has entitlements... medical, education etc... like Holland... they have the lowest teen pregnancy rates. Perhaps we should try a little leftist tactics because it is obvious... there is no "right" method that works..."

I'm talking about our left and right, not that of Holland or any other country. Here, our left has a tendency to pass out entitlements without asking much in return, and it also seriously fails at one of its most important tasks, which as I see it is to tell our right to shut the fuck up once in a while.

The family unit is the building block for the underpinning of society - fuck with that, as the liberals have, and you get what we got. Keep saying bad behaviors are ok and you remove the stigma of them being bad - its ok to get pregnant out of wedlock, ok to cheat on your spouse, ok to toke up every now and then, ok to stick it to your employer....or whatever selfish behavior liberals are pushing this week.

Republicans who choose these behaviors after condemning them are the worst offenders and public confidence in anything they say should be lost.

Marriage is not for everyone - obviously. Heterosexuality is not for everyone - again obviously. To say that marriage between one man and one woman is not the ideal underpinning is absurd. History proves otherwise as all great societies begin their fall when God and the family is taken out of their foundation.

#41 | Posted by ELCIDCE90 at 2010-01-27 04:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

Right...because gay marriage is 'bad behavior' in your mind. Nice.

"The family unit is the building block for the underpinning of society - fuck with that, as the liberals have, and you get what we got." - ELCID

"I know Ted isn't gay because he hasn't called me Framk in the bedroom for over a year" - Gayle Haggard

"Can't a guy just be toe tappin' happy on the crapper without being called gay?" - Larry Craig

"I did NOT divorce that WOMAN!" - Ronald Reagan on his divorce from Jane Wyman

"I did not mean to screw my assistant and tell my wife I was leaving her while she was in the hospital with cancer" - Newt Gingrich

"I thought she just needed a ride" - Jimmy Swaggart on hookers

"I thought she just needed $1000 a night" - Sen. Vitter of LA

I'm talking about our left and right, not that of Holland or any other country. Here, our left has a tendency to pass out entitlements without asking much in return, and it also seriously fails at one of its most important tasks, which as I see it is to tell our right to shut the fuck up once in a while.

Ya know Mary I recall similar objections when Canada was having the arguments about socialized health care... and here we are 40 years later and a nation neighbor with nearly identical cultural proclivities is in the top ten for quality of life while we place in somewhere around 40th of industrialized nations.

We seem to feel more comfortable drifting towards a system that parallels our capitalist neighbors to the South... no wonder they come here in droves... feels a lot like home.

It is interesting how many rightwingnuts would rather drift into huge divisions between the wealthy and poor rather than budge on a social system that provides the basic needs of all citizens. I love how it sends those that object into foaming at the mouth rants about entitlements... communism... morality... blah blah blah... when not a single person that rails can name one nation that drifted into commie economics that didn't start when class divisions became so stark.

If you can name one please do.. I am waiting...

You mean like Rudy "No attack in US under George Bush" Guiliani?
Rudy is not a conservative - want to try for the daily double - GW was not a conservative - how about a complete three strike at bat - total list of conservatives blaming the dems for not blocking spending=0.
Reality and the left = only works after a few bong hits - just ask DANNI.

#26 | POSTED BY ELCIDCE90

What planet do you live on and is it nice there?

Teaching abstinence alongside other forms of birth control is and should be a no-brainer. Parents teaching this is mandatory. Schools - NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.

#36 | POSTED BY ELCIDCE90

Why? Why is it not their responsibility? All you do is make stupid claims. You give no reason for any of them.

Marriage is not for everyone - obviously. Heterosexuality is not for everyone - again obviously. To say that marriage between one man and one woman is not the ideal underpinning is absurd. History proves otherwise as all great societies begin their fall when God and the family is taken out of their foundation.
#41 | Posted by ELCIDCE90

Again, one of the dumbest statements you've ever made. The Spartans were blatantly bi and homosexual well before Alexander the Great. The Roman Empire rose to its greatest heights with pederasty as common place. In fact, the Roman Empire becomes Christian in 380 and collapses a hundred years later. They survived as an empire for 900 years prior to that with blatant homosexuality. Both England and Spain never tolerated homosexuality, both rose and fell quite well. So which society are you actually talking about?

So if a man is given an 8 year old girl in marriage... and he has sex with her.. (it happens every day among religiously conservative groups)... does the act of marriage nullify the pedophilia?

#45 | POSTED BY RIGHTISTRITE

No. She isn't considered able to consent to the marriage.

Thank GOd for court orders.

#25 | Posted by 726 at 2010

ha ha...(lol)

then dont look at the thread where I talk about catholic school girls...

Keep saying bad behaviors are ok and you remove the stigma of them being bad - its ok to get pregnant out of wedlock, ok to cheat on your spouse, ok to toke up every now and then, ok to stick it to your employer....or whatever selfish behavior liberals are pushing this week.


Revelations for the day.....

Sarah Palin - liberal
Bristol Palin - liberal
Rush Limbaugh - liberal
Rudy 9/11 - liberal
Nutty Newty - liberal
Mark Sanford - liberal
Larry Craig - liberal
George W. Bush - liberal
Randy Cunningham - liberal
Ted Stevens - liberal
John McCain - liberal

Teaching abstinence alongside other forms of birth control is and should be a no-brainer.

Tell that to Sarah Abstinence Only Palin.

That has worked out well for her family.

History proves otherwise as all great societies begin their fall when God and the family is taken out of their foundation.

#41 | Posted by ELCIDCE90

wondering when china is going to fall, god never been there and they are going strong for what. 10 million years or something.

#57,

some of those people are liberal regardless of what they claim.

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