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I don't doubt that this is true for adults who have more fully formed critical thinking skills. But we are talking about teens.
Or are you suggesting that even teens can make thoughtful choices about their economic futures, not to mention actually control their sexual urges and fertility?
Gee, that might mean that teens aren't the irresponsible drains on society so many try to make them out to be.
Teens have made family planning decisions and economic decisions in the past.
It's only the last 100 year or so that we have babied people until they are 22 and out of college.
Personally, I think this is a bad thing. Not meaning 15 year olds should have babies. I think teens should have more economic and educational freedoms than we allow them.
I don't doubt that this is true for adults who have more fully formed critical thinking skills. But we are talking about teens.
Or are you suggesting that even teens can make thoughtful choices about their economic futures, not to mention actually control their sexual urges and fertility?
Gee, that might mean that teens aren't the irresponsible drains on society so many try to make them out to be.
Do you think teens live alone, or are they more likely to live with their parents in tough economic times and listen to their parents input about not being able to afford to raise children?
Didnt we also have record number of abortions during the same period?
Shocking that more abortions would result in less births, ha?
When I and my girls friends were teens back in the paleolithic we did not want to have or raise kids so we took care to avoid the problem with the best pre birth control pill technoliogy available. It must have worked because I did not start any kids. We did not resist any of our urges.
Most teens I know live with their parents who dont want to be responsible to raise babies. The worse the economy, the more teens living with parents.
I'm used to you not thinking
But I thought that the government gives free housing and all sorts of other free stuff to teen parents. Why don't these kids want to take advantage of the freebies?
You make it sound like kids actually care what their parents think about these matters. That can't be true, can it?
But I thought that the government gives free housing and all sorts of other free stuff to teen parents. Why don't these kids want to take advantage of the freebies?
You make it sound like kids actually care what their parents think about these matters. That can't be true, can it?
Are you denying that government hands out hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to assist the poor?
Are you also ignoring that if children live with their parents then their parents income is what matters when raising the babies and not the teens? Are you suggesting teenagers should leave their parents home, just so they can get handouts?
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