Comments on: Teen births versus religiosity

By: Abstinence Education Works, Study Says | Times & Seasons

Abstinence Education Works, Study Says | Times & Seasons — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:32:30 +0000

[...] that sound so cool: Abstinence education promotes sex! Lower taxes promotes government revenue!) LDS teens are somewhat more chaste than their peers and it is certainly not from a lack of abstinence education at Church. Of course LDS teens are not [...]

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:47:29 +0000

I hope they’re excluding married teens–if a woman gets married and pregnant when she’s 19, big deal.

By: Vader

Vader — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:54:14 +0000

The report claims it corrected for abortions.

But there are lots of other things wrong with it.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:48:42 +0000

Insert “(and having pregnancies)” after “having sex” in the 3rd paragraph above.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:46:23 +0000

ARGH!

They’re measuring the wrong thing. They should be measuring teen _pregnancies_, not teen _birth rates_.

It’s quite likely that the less-religious teens (or teens in less-religious states) abort their babies at a higher-rate than the more-religious teens (or teens in more-religious states).

So, even if the religious teens are having sex at the same (or lesser) rate than less-religious teens, OF COURSE they’re still going to have a higher birth rate, BECAUSE THEY’RE LESS LIKELY TO ABORT.

This report/study (based on the summary of it in the news) says nothing at all about which groups have higher/lower _pregnancy_ rates.

Idiots! Use of contraception is NOT tied to birth rate, it’s morely closely tied to _pregnancy rate_.