Black teen pregnancy declined by 44%

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So hispanics had the highest rate of teenage pregnancy for atleast the past 10 years? :jbhmm:
No racist, but they like bunnies. They stay popping out kids.
They also have the lowest rate of education in America and are the least educated group in America. Statistically.
Education usually has alot to do with abstinence...so put two and two together.
whats those abortion numbers like tho :patrice:
The abortion rate has been on the decline since 1990.
Why Are Fewer American Women Getting Abortions?
 

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No, just funny it's never talked about.

Just like alotta people don't know Phoenix Arizona in the 2000s was getting 200+ homicides a year, manly due to ghetto ass mexicans, but it was swept under the rug :mjpls:
Let a all blacc city get 200+ homicides, it will get a reputation as one of the most dangerous and undesrable cities in the nation in a heart beat

:ohhh:
Man cacs can't WAIT to throw that "black on black crime" bullshyt in our faces. I gotta do moor research on this.


Wow.

Black crime rate decreasing to the lowest numbers in 20 years...
Black business rates increasing by 60% since 2004...
Black enrollment rates increasing
Black college graduation rates increasing
The number of blacks going to jail is decreasing
Black male life expectancy is increasing
Black suicide rates decreasing
And now black teen pregnancy has declined by 44%
:blessed:

All while
White birth rates are decreasing globally
white teen pregnancy rates are seemingly increasing
white women's life expectancy rates are decreasing...
white suicide rates increasing
:wow:

It seems what people have been speculating about whites becoming the minority in America by 2050 wasn't bullshyt.

What a time to be alive
:banderas:
Once we get our pan African economic game plan poppin off its a wrap for systematic white supremacy.

:mjcry: one day
 

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Wow.

Black crime rate decreasing to the lowest numbers in 20 years...
Black business rates increasing by 60% since 2004...
Black enrollment rates increasing
Black college graduation rates increasing
The number of blacks going to jail is decreasing
Black male life expectancy is increasing
Black suicide rates decreasing
And now black teen pregnancy has declined by 44%
:blessed:

All while
White birth rates are decreasing globally
white teen pregnancy rates are seemingly increasing
white women's life expectancy rates are decreasing...
white suicide rates increasing
:wow:

It seems what people have been speculating about whites becoming the minority in America by 2050 wasn't bullshyt.

Plus the Sun is killing them and while its giving us life.:blessed:
 

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Please continue. I'm listening
First off, the general idea that children born to unwed parents are doomed. Comes from an old study that has since been thoroughly debunked. And even the original study didn't make any of the claims, that became the "single parent" rhetoric common in American discourse today. The study talked about the governments roll in dismantling families, and the effects of that on the communities. Racist white folks at the time took that report and spinned it into, "black people having too many out of wedlock kids". Basically the report talked about it as a SYMPTOM and racist cacs turned it into THE CAUSE to deflect from the systemic oppression of black people.

So from the jump we are starting with a faulty premiss. Regardless of what the out of wedlock rate is, it doesn't mean what you've been told it does. When real studies are done and adjusted for income level. "Out of wedlock" kids perform at a very similar level to non"out of wedlock" kids.

Next. The number is a ratio. The rhetoric is that the irresponsible pregnancy situation is getting worse in the black community. And as you can see in the table above that's not true. Young black women are much more responsible sexually than they were in the past. The reason the ratio has gone up is that married women are waiting longer to have babies and they are having less babies. In the past a woman would get married young and basically have babies for the next 10-15 years. Now married women are more likely to have a career so they are only having one or two babies. So while unwed teen pregnancies are down, married pregnancies are WAY down. Which makes the ratio go up. Just presenting that ratio without the context behind it is what makes the number misleading.

3rd. The "out of wedlock" rate really isn't accurate if you want to assess the situation of kids growing up with one parent. The "out of wedlock" rate doesn't adjust for kids who live with both parents who aren't married, or kids who's parents got married after the birth of the child, or kids who may live with a stepparent. Neither does the rate tell you which kids actually have a healthy relationship with both parents. A kid in a home where the parents are abusive to each other and the kid, is not better off than a kid born to a loving single parent with a good support system. So the "out of wedlock" rate really tells you nothing about the plight of the kids. The only real conclusions you can draw from the number are marriage trends.

Finally. The rhetoric is that the "out of wedlock" rate is harming communities, does not agree with the actual numbers. As the "out of wedlock rate" has risen in the black community, educational and economic achievement has also risen. If the "out of wedlock" rate was such a detriment to the community, then we would see young people achieving less as that ratio rises. The opposite is happening.


So as an intelligent person who now has more context/info. You need to ask yourself "why was I misled?" "why would a person manipulate the numbers and facts to paint a negative picture of young black women and communities?"

Think about it
 

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Wow.

Black crime rate decreasing to the lowest numbers in 20 years...
Black business rates increasing by 60% since 2004...
Black enrollment rates increasing
Black college graduation rates increasing
The number of blacks going to jail is decreasing
Black male life expectancy is increasing
Black suicide rates decreasing
And now black teen pregnancy has declined by 44%
:blessed:

All while
White birth rates are decreasing globally
white teen pregnancy rates are seemingly increasing
white women's life expectancy rates are decreasing...
white suicide rates increasing
:wow:

It seems what people have been speculating about whites becoming the minority in America by 2050 wasn't bullshyt.

:blessed:

Base your existence on people being beneath you bruhs. :russ:
 

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Readily available condoms + people becoming less religious is the cause of this.
Religion was creating a stigma where by teens were keeping shyt secret from their parents and fukking on the low raw and getting pregnant. Also religious organizations were preaching that people should NOT use birth control. :snoop: Once the teen was pregnant the religious stigma made them oppose getting abortions.:snoop: Now that many parents of these teens are less dogmatic and religious the teens can be more open in exploring their sexuality and can be properly educated about what to do/not do as far as using condoms and birth control.

The more reason and logic that we use in our community the better these kinds of numbers will get :sas1:
 

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First off, the general idea that children born to unwed parents are doomed. Comes from an old study that has since been thoroughly debunked. And even the original study didn't make any of the claims, that became the "single parent" rhetoric common in American discourse today. The study talked about the governments roll in dismantling families, and the effects of that on the communities. Racist white folks at the time took that report and spinned it into, "black people having too many out of wedlock kids". Basically the report talked about it as a SYMPTOM and racist cacs turned it into THE CAUSE to deflect from the systemic oppression of black people.

So from the jump we are starting with a faulty premiss. Regardless of what the out of wedlock rate is, it doesn't mean what you've been told it does. When real studies are done and adjusted for income level. "Out of wedlock" kids perform at a very similar level to non"out of wedlock" kids.

Next. The number is a ratio. The rhetoric is that the irresponsible pregnancy situation is getting worse in the black community. And as you can see in the table above that's not true. Young black women are much more responsible sexually than they were in the past. The reason the ratio has gone up is that married women are waiting longer to have babies and they are having less babies. In the past a woman would get married young and basically have babies for the next 10-15 years. Now married women are more likely to have a career so they are only having one or two babies. So while unwed teen pregnancies are down, married pregnancies are WAY down. Which makes the ratio go up. Just presenting that ratio without the context behind it is what makes the number misleading.

3rd. The "out of wedlock" rate really isn't accurate if you want to assess the situation of kids growing up with one parent. The "out of wedlock" rate doesn't adjust for kids who live with both parents who aren't married, or kids who's parents got married after the birth of the child, or kids who may live with a stepparent. Neither does the rate tell you which kids actually have a healthy relationship with both parents. A kid in a home where the parents are abusive to each other and the kid, is not better off than a kid born to a loving single parent with a good support system. So the "out of wedlock" rate really tells you nothing about the plight of the kids. The only real conclusions you can draw from the number are marriage trends.

Finally. The rhetoric is that the "out of wedlock" rate is harming communities, does not agree with the actual numbers. As the "out of wedlock rate" has risen in the black community, educational and economic achievement has also risen. If the "out of wedlock" rate was such a detriment to the community, then we would see young people achieving less as that ratio rises. The opposite is happening.


So as an intelligent person who now has more context/info. You need to ask yourself "why was I misled?" "why would a person manipulate the numbers and facts to paint a negative picture of young black women and communities?"

Think about it
There's quite a bit of issue with correlation and causation both in the studies you cited and in your explanations.
Economic and educational achievement will rise regardless of the "out-of-wedlock" rate, that doesn't mean it isn't a massive hindrance.
Also can you link to the studies you mention?
 

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First off, the general idea that children born to unwed parents are doomed. Comes from an old study that has since been thoroughly debunked. And even the original study didn't make any of the claims, that became the "single parent" rhetoric common in American discourse today. The study talked about the governments roll in dismantling families, and the effects of that on the communities. Racist white folks at the time took that report and spinned it into, "black people having too many out of wedlock kids". Basically the report talked about it as a SYMPTOM and racist cacs turned it into THE CAUSE to deflect from the systemic oppression of black people.

So from the jump we are starting with a faulty premiss. Regardless of what the out of wedlock rate is, it doesn't mean what you've been told it does. When real studies are done and adjusted for income level. "Out of wedlock" kids perform at a very similar level to non"out of wedlock" kids.

Next. The number is a ratio. The rhetoric is that the irresponsible pregnancy situation is getting worse in the black community. And as you can see in the table above that's not true. Young black women are much more responsible sexually than they were in the past. The reason the ratio has gone up is that married women are waiting longer to have babies and they are having less babies. In the past a woman would get married young and basically have babies for the next 10-15 years. Now married women are more likely to have a career so they are only having one or two babies. So while unwed teen pregnancies are down, married pregnancies are WAY down. Which makes the ratio go up. Just presenting that ratio without the context behind it is what makes the number misleading.

3rd. The "out of wedlock" rate really isn't accurate if you want to assess the situation of kids growing up with one parent. The "out of wedlock" rate doesn't adjust for kids who live with both parents who aren't married, or kids who's parents got married after the birth of the child, or kids who may live with a stepparent. Neither does the rate tell you which kids actually have a healthy relationship with both parents. A kid in a home where the parents are abusive to each other and the kid, is not better off than a kid born to a loving single parent with a good support system. So the "out of wedlock" rate really tells you nothing about the plight of the kids. The only real conclusions you can draw from the number are marriage trends.

Finally. The rhetoric is that the "out of wedlock" rate is harming communities, does not agree with the actual numbers. As the "out of wedlock rate" has risen in the black community, educational and economic achievement has also risen. If the "out of wedlock" rate was such a detriment to the community, then we would see young people achieving less as that ratio rises. The opposite is happening.


So as an intelligent person who now has more context/info. You need to ask yourself "why was I misled?" "why would a person manipulate the numbers and facts to paint a negative picture of young black women and communities?"

Think about it


Not that I'm entirely discarding what you posted, and lank violations aside, regardless of the numbers my own personal experience and observations trumps any talk on the numbers IMO. I'm sure others will say the same. Its similar to planning a war related operation in that the reality on the ground doesnt necessarily correspond to what the intelligence reports said. This is like folks saying" violent crime is down. Look at the statistics." Who needs statistics when you can turn on your local news. I just lost someone last week. He's not the first, and wont be the last. And a ton of other brehs can say the same. Look at Chicago....but violent crime is down.

The same goes for all of these single baby producers. Its not supporting stereotypes to say there are far too many single Black mothers. I dont care about the "real reasons" supposedly proven statistically. I see them every day, I work with some of them, I'm at the same grocery store with them, etc.. There are too many of them and its not a good thing regardless of the reasons supported by the statistics. Its a problem. As far as teenage pregnancy rates decreasing, all that means they're delaying till their early twenties what the would have done in their teenage years. Either way it doesnt bode well. Good news everyone, statistics show Americans are living longer! Bad news, Medicare needs reformed, as does Social Security, there's not enough nurses and aides to assist them, the retirement age needs to be increased to 80, etc.. but the statistics show...........
 

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Wow.

Black crime rate decreasing to the lowest numbers in 20 years...
Black business rates increasing by 60% since 2004...
Black enrollment rates increasing
Black college graduation rates increasing
The number of blacks going to jail is decreasing
Black male life expectancy is increasing
Black suicide rates decreasing
And now black teen pregnancy has declined by 44%
:blessed:

All while
White birth rates are decreasing globally
white teen pregnancy rates are seemingly increasing
white women's life expectancy rates are decreasing...
white suicide rates increasing
:wow:

It seems what people have been speculating about whites becoming the minority in America by 2050 wasn't bullshyt.

What a time to be alive :wow:
 
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