Post by jeffolie on Mar 18, 2009 13:43:14 GMT -6
40% Bastards - blacks babies 72% bastards
This is definitely a cultural/racial thing.
I believe that growing up without a father is a severe disadvantage economically and culturally.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. teen birth rate rose for a second straight year in 2007 after a long decline and the overall number of babies topped even the peak of the post-World War Two baby boom, officials said on Wednesday.
In an encouraging development, the rate of premature births and low birthweight babies declined after a long upward trend, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
But Cesarean deliveries rose for an 11th straight year to a new high -- up 2 percent to 31.8 percent of births.
"Every pregnant woman in the U.S. should be alarmed by this rate," Pam Udy, president of the International Cesarean Awareness Network advocacy group, said in a statement. "Half or more of Cesareans are avoidable and over-using major surgery on otherwise healthy women and babies is taking a toll."
A record 39.7 percent of babies in 2007 were born to unmarried women, including 71.6 percent of black babies and 51.3 percent of Hispanic babies, the report found.
The birth rate for teenage girls rose 5 percent between 2005 and 2007, according to the report.
The previously reported increase in 2006 ended 14 straight years of declines. The rate rose again in 2007 by 1 percent over the prior year to 42.5 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19.
The rate for Hispanic teens was about three times as high as for whites and the rate for blacks was more than twice as high as for whites, according to the report.
Some experts blame the teen birth rate increases on the government's support for "abstinence-only" education under the Bush administration that left office this January, but advocates of that approach have defended it as sound.
"The teen birth rate in the U.S. had declined dramatically in past years because of both less sex and more contraception," Bill Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy advocacy group said in a telephone interview.
"The teen birth rate is now going up probably for the opposite set of reasons -- the combination of more sex and less contraception."
The total of 4.3 million babies born in 2007 was the most ever recorded in the United States, topping even the peak of the baby boom in 1957, according to the report.
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52H67H20090318
This is definitely a cultural/racial thing.
I believe that growing up without a father is a severe disadvantage economically and culturally.
==================================================================
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. teen birth rate rose for a second straight year in 2007 after a long decline and the overall number of babies topped even the peak of the post-World War Two baby boom, officials said on Wednesday.
In an encouraging development, the rate of premature births and low birthweight babies declined after a long upward trend, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
But Cesarean deliveries rose for an 11th straight year to a new high -- up 2 percent to 31.8 percent of births.
"Every pregnant woman in the U.S. should be alarmed by this rate," Pam Udy, president of the International Cesarean Awareness Network advocacy group, said in a statement. "Half or more of Cesareans are avoidable and over-using major surgery on otherwise healthy women and babies is taking a toll."
A record 39.7 percent of babies in 2007 were born to unmarried women, including 71.6 percent of black babies and 51.3 percent of Hispanic babies, the report found.
The birth rate for teenage girls rose 5 percent between 2005 and 2007, according to the report.
The previously reported increase in 2006 ended 14 straight years of declines. The rate rose again in 2007 by 1 percent over the prior year to 42.5 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19.
The rate for Hispanic teens was about three times as high as for whites and the rate for blacks was more than twice as high as for whites, according to the report.
Some experts blame the teen birth rate increases on the government's support for "abstinence-only" education under the Bush administration that left office this January, but advocates of that approach have defended it as sound.
"The teen birth rate in the U.S. had declined dramatically in past years because of both less sex and more contraception," Bill Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy advocacy group said in a telephone interview.
"The teen birth rate is now going up probably for the opposite set of reasons -- the combination of more sex and less contraception."
The total of 4.3 million babies born in 2007 was the most ever recorded in the United States, topping even the peak of the baby boom in 1957, according to the report.
www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52H67H20090318