Unwed births, c-sections set records »
Posted by: KeithMcDuffee 1 year, 6 months agoBirths to unmarried women, and births by C-section, hit record highs in 2005, according to the CDC's annual "vital statistics" report.
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LABELDUDE1 year, 6 months ago
"...record-high birth rate for unmarried women: in 2005, 47.6 births per 1,000 women."
I'm surprised it's this high since the Religious Sickos in the U.S.A. punish this behavior so severely.
The fact that the Gummint even reports such a thing as "birth rates for unmarried women" illustrates how insidiously Religion has jammed its nose into every facet of our lives.
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jeffery11 year, 6 months ago
Boy, this post of yours was worth posting wasn't it? You just had to "turrets" something in retaliation didn't you?
The media is rife with celegratory stories about births every day, with nothing about the evil of adding to human overpopulation. So, where is this punishment?
Also, the religious right is constantly blasting immoral behavior, including unwed sex, which is one of the reasons they don't want kids to get the new vaccination against cervical cancer - because it would imply that they should have sex! So, don't vaccinate your kid against a cause of cancer so that they develop cancer if they are so immoral that they have sex.
It would be interesting to see how this slices through America. The religious right likes to make kids take a celibacy pledge which then leads to a higher transmission of STDs and unintended pregnancy because when those that took the pledge break it they don't use protection at the same rate as those who never took the pledge.
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michael1048521 year, 6 months ago
There is no such thing as overpopulation.
Check your statistics. Birth rates in the industrialized nations are down over the past decade, below the level of replacement.
U.S. population increases because of immigration.
Look it up.
There never was such a thing as overpopulation, only the "word" of fear-mongers.
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jeffery11 year, 6 months ago
It is the people of faith on the right that use government to control behavior that is simply considered immoral but not harmful. It is the people of faith on the right that provides only a partial story, such as in not providing sex education thus leading to unwanted pregnancies and abortions.
Mandatory? Polio vaccines were mandatory, so why not ensure that our females children are protected? The only reason is that the religious right doesn't like the idea of protecting a person from the punishment of immoral behavior. So, refuse to protect your daughter so that she has a greater probability of suffering from cervical cancer because you don't want her to feel she can have sex without that threat. This is the sign of a sick person.
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JohnBryansFontaine1 year, 6 months ago
The record-high number of unwed mothers is a direct result of the failure of the abstinence movement, and its staunch opposition to Birth control, including condoms. Teens who take abstinence ed are far less likely to use birth control.
Therefore, abstinence-only ed greatly increases the number of unwed mothers.
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ScottMiller1 year, 6 months ago
This statistic is kept because it is scientifically significant not because of any religious imperative. People on the left use this statistic to promote the need for social programs that help single mothers. The religious right uses it to track the decline of morals in this country.
I don't think that any responsible person is going to suggest that children are better off in single parent families. Some fathers are worthless. Some mothers are worthless. Sometimes neither parent is worth much, but these instances are the exception and not the rule.
By and large the best environment for child development is to have two parents who can provide an environment that will allow them to develop into people who can someday pursue their own dreams.
I am sorry that you have an ax to grind with religion.
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jeffery11 year, 6 months ago
Decline of morals? Whose morality? Yours? Those of another's sect or religion? Morality is as capricious an idea as you can get. Using the bible you can claim that slavery is moral so long as the rules set forth in the bible are follwed. You can claim that murder is righteous so long as the one being killed is unrighteous.
Don't give me that "moral" argument. There is a higher morality but it isn't found from mere belief systems.
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rwrnae1 year, 6 months ago
Of course the unmarried birth rate is high. Cut off welfare, ADC and all that BS and it will plummet.
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jeffery11 year, 6 months ago
Great, more and more uneeded people. How selfish are people that they see meeting their desire to have a baby is more important than providing for those already here? There's something very wrong with us, that we celebrate conception and birth while we ignore the devastation that an ever increasing human population causes.
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jeffery11 year, 6 months ago
Boy, you are a really horrible person. Suicide? You should hide your darker side from public view though.
I already have not created another person. The best thing about birth control is that all ones has to do is NOT create a person who already doesn't exist! It's that easy. that way, resources can be expended on people that do exist and we can provide more for our nonhuman brethren.
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Diamondgirl1 year, 6 months ago
Selfish AND greedy... you get more money from the Government to take care of the kids... and then the woman doesn't have to work. Just stay home, poppin' em out. A burden for the rest of us.
This isn't about religion, this is about common sense, decent morality - providing for and taking care of what YOU create!! i.e., for your own children. Everyone else has to pick up the slack for these greedy people. We all pay for it, one way or another.
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Dsb2k61 year, 6 months ago
That may be the single most ridiculous statement ever posted on netscape. Maybe this really is nutscape. What are you gonna do with all the kids whose parents arent worth ****** who dont want to pay and or take the time out from their meth habit to take their children to and from school?
To even suggest that there is one single person on earth who went through 9 months of pregnancy and pain and financial hardship to get a $1500 tax credit shows what kind of intelligence levels you have.
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froggy721 year, 6 months ago
This sounds like someone without kids. Because if you did you'd laugh at your comment. Where do you think a write off of $2,000 for the year even remotley covers raising a child - hell that wouldn't pay for 6 months of diapers !
Anyone who wants kids doesn't have them because of any 'write-offs'...I'll give you a simple clue. Your bills are $5000 per month and the Govt. will give you 100 for the year to cover this cost....That would equal getting this hugh 'write-off' !
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jordan111 year, 6 months ago
elfish AND greedy... you get more money from the Government to take care of the kids... and then the woman doesn't have to work. Just stay home, poppin' em out. A burden for the rest of us.>>>>
What a judgmental & arrogant little thing you are. I raised two children alone, and burdened society with nothing. Matter of fact, I'd venture that I've paid more in federal taxes than most. So get off your high horse. You know nothing about single mom's overall, or what their 'contributions' are or aren't.
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butterflycircus1 year, 6 months ago
Growing social dichotomy. Religious conservatism getting stricter each day at battle with liberal social norms getting looser each day. It would be nice if there was abstinence before marriage like decades ago just so unmarried females wouldn't end up pregnant & with her man running away from her, but that's all in the past. We can't go back to the so-called cushy comfy 'innocent' 1950s anymore (that had unsafe back-alley taboo abortion procedures either). The fact: there will always be people that have sex outside marriage regardless of religious teachings or any laws legalized by religious lawmakers. Religious people have the freedom NOT to have sex outside marriage; no liberal is going to make religious people change their own point of view. Why must liberals then change for religious people? It only makes sense to keep birth control readily available for liberals & let religious people practice their own abstinence for themselves. Then everybody gets what they want.
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itsme21 year, 6 months ago
Forget the religious or even moralistic views here. The worst part about this is the fact that these children do not have a father. Fact is children with a father in thier lives are more likely to do better in life, not to say this is true in all situations but in most. These kids are the ones suffering for the parents not wanting to be held down.
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misanoel1 year, 6 months ago
In a perfect world, you may be right, but...
Seven months into my pregnancy, my husband (now ex) became physically abusive--as in holding a gun to my head, choking me, etc. (I guess he assumed I was too pregnant to run away!) I've never regretted removing my son from an environment in which violent behavior would have been modeled.
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misanoel1 year, 6 months ago
"his physical strengths were not leveraged for the protection of the family."
You can say that again! By the time I left, he bore no resemblance to the man I married, and I never did figure out why he flipped out so suddenly. But I was told that, about 2 years after I fled, he got into hard drugs, robbed a quick shop, brandished a weapon at a police officer, and wound up doing time.
Like I said, there are some situations in which a child is better off with only one parent.
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Dsb2k61 year, 6 months ago
http://www.answers.com/father&r=67
Not one of these definitions says anything about having to be married to be a father. Marriage is a religious institution and while I chose to marry due to my religious beliefs I dont see it as being even close to neccesary to raise a child. My first child was born out of wedlock, I dont have an std and my child sees me everyday. Of course, there are religious nutcases on both sides of my family who wont even say hello to me or my children due to what they have been brainwashed to believe.
I believe itsme2 has misunderstood what an unwed birth is. It doesnt mean that the children have no father, which would be impossible. It means that the parents werent married when the child was born.
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unorthodoxic1 year, 6 months ago
Religion may dictate the behavioral standards of its members. It may preach those standards to others. What it may not do is regulate the behavior of those outside their particular organization. If you study history you will discover that children of married couples were without fathers present for most of their lives. Sea captains, soldiers, salesmen, ranchers, etc. etc. etc. All men whose jobs kept them away for months or years at a time. Amazingly, we look back on those folks as paragons of morality. How did they get that way without fathers? Is a puzzlement. My father was away in WWII until I was 3. Many mothers were widowed, and remained unmarried for years while they raised their children. The "Leave It To Beaver" family is fiction, folks. Get real and look at the world as it is and has been, not through the eyes of Ladies Home Journal.
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sue20081 year, 6 months ago
if you read closely the majority of unmarried women giving births are bt the ages of 15 and 19. Is the 19 yr-old-boy (father)--or maybe younger-- going to show any type of responsibilities for this unwanted baby?
why is 15-yr-old kid having sex anyways??are not they supposed to be playing computer games or sports?
i wish they teach the girls and the boys to wait untill they are mature enough in case something like that happens. maybe they do but the kids are tooo horny to listen
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jaern1 year, 6 months ago
I work in a teen health clinic and I see children from 14 and up having babies. There are all kinds of reasons that these kids are having sex. I believe the number one reason girls have sexual intercourse with boys at an early age has to do with poor self esteem. They are coerced into sex because they believe "he won't love me if I don't have sex with him." They come from households where their own self esteem isn't nurtured by parents. All they are looking for is love. And once they get pregnant they think if they keep the baby, they'll manage to keep the boy too. Of course, the majority of the time this doesn't happen.
Horny? Most young girls have no idea what an orgasm is, what sexual pleasure and would give you a blank look if you mentioned foreplay. How do we teach these children to wait? What we need to teach them is self worth and that you don't need to do something if you don't want to.
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Diamondgirl1 year, 6 months ago
I stand by my first post, and to Jordan11, I wasn't referring TO YOU. YOU are responsible evidently, and proud of it... I'm talking about the people that keep making babies together & choose NOT to get married, because they will lose their social security & welfare benefits!! I know of one such case by the way, and these folks are WHITE. There not meth addicts, as far as I know anyway, they are just taking all they can get from the US Government... This isn't about race, its about taking responsibility.
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CharacterCounts1 year, 6 months ago
Diamondgirl, that was a wise, well spoken, well thoughtout argument. It is because the govenment continues to pay women welfare for having more babies....that's the real problem.
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kwsoonerdoc11 year, 6 months ago
Children certainly benefit from having a relationship with both parents as long as there is no abuse or neglect. It is important to have a female and male role model. Sometimes circumstances arise which result in a one parent home. This will always be the case to some degree.
None of that bothers me much. What bothers me is spending my hard-earned money to support other peoples children. Bottom line is YOUR kids are YOUR responsibility. It's not my job to pay for them. If you can't afford them, don't have them.
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sue20081 year, 6 months ago
For sure the gov't is enabling them. I think all welfare recipients should do some community work then they would think a million time b4 submitting their application and they would be creative trust me.
at least, they can clean the snow for us. we pay them salary. we work hard for our money so should them!!!
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sue20081 year, 6 months ago
I've got a story to share. One day I was working at pharmacy-in dispensary area- a woman is on welfare she wants 6 month supply of her medication because she is going on vacation. I told her no you can only have enough for one month. She started screaming and cursing us and many stories like that. I am working 40 hours a week to send her on vacation. I can't afford 6 month-vacations myself. There is something wrong with the system.
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JenMurdock1 year, 6 months ago
I find it interesting how C-sections seem to be going WAAAY up, and yet the death rate isn't going down. And, which countries are having lower rates of death than ours? Why don't they mention that? Maybe because they don't make women feel like they can't have the kid themselves or with only a midwife present, and avoid exposure to all these super bugs, staph, flesh eating bacteria etc at the hospitals. Hospitals make a LOT of money from births. Why go to a dirty hospital to give birth if you have a 'low risk' pregnancy anyway...seems counterintuitive. How about that woman who lost her arms/legs to a virulent hospital infection (that was carried there by some medical personnel that carried it around the hospital).
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NeoCon1 year, 6 months ago
I don't know where u guys get your facts. 80% of all juvenile offenses are committed by kids from single parent homes. This is not something that we should be proud of as a nation or something that we should support. We need to end all subsides to unwed mothers. Once it because unacceptable again this rate will drop.
Also the infant mortality rate in the US is based mostly on the infant mortality of illegal aliens. That is why it is so high for our country not because there is anything wrong with our health care system. That is what the socialist left want you to believe they just dont tell you the whole truth.
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uuranium1 year, 6 months ago
sure do hope that jeffery1 has done his/her part to save this world from overpopulation by getting permanently neutered!
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nostalgia1 year, 6 months ago
I found it interesting that some of the statistics from the annual CDC report were NOT in the article.
Hispanic women have the highest unmarried birthrate in the country-over three times that of whites and Asians, and nearly one and a half times that of black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Wonder why the article omitted that? Seems like a very important piece of information to me
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nostalgia1 year, 6 months ago
And that is the sad state of the news media today! They decide that certain parts of a statistical report from the CDC are racist so don't report those facts.
You almost have to go to every original source document yourself to get the entire picture or you are left with the distorted view that the media presents
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jordan111 year, 6 months ago
Perhaps you are arrogant for thinking you are in a position of authority where you believe you can pass judgement on someone else's opinion in such a harsh way.>>>>
Nope, just calling a spade a spade.
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WesternCiv1 year, 6 months ago
Procreation is the recreation of stupid people.
The secular progressives in our country our fine with this and think that so long as they charge the more responsible people in America through taxes to support the idiots who can't stop having kids the problem will eventually go away. It's not going to people, these unwed birth #s are just going to go up. There was a funny post on here about Mike Judge's movie "Idiocracy" which dealt with the funny (but also possible)future of this problem.
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OldSOB1 year, 6 months ago
Out-of-wedlock births have been increasing at an alarming rate for sixty years. Seems the pregnant couples have all kinds of excuses for not marrying before the birth of their precious child. They are holding up as an example, the celebrities who can care less about the bastard child's legacy. Somehow these selfish people are forgetting that the illegitimate child they are bringing into this world is going to grow to be an adult. And this adult is not going to stop by asking simply "Whose my daddy?" They are going after their birth rights and punishing their selfish parents.
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evelyna1 year, 6 months ago
C sections have always been on the uprise. I can remember when women were in labor for days and the hospital would not give a c section.
Now they will give them in an instant because they will not risk a lawsuit if the baby dies(an act of nature).
I had a friend who owned a petshop and people would want a replacement snake or lizard(usually people who did not educate themselves to the care required by the animal.) He would not give them a replacement if over a year. People expected a life time gaurantee.
People who take a pot shot in the dark should not expect the perfect child or expect the Dr. to be God.
People do things on impulse and expect to go back because it is too difficult or such.
I think more people would adopt but too much red tape.
Cheaper and easier to spit it out. If you cannot afford to pay-the taxpayer is there for you.
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hoylelisa1 year, 6 months ago
Guy's I'm just really happy to read the part about teen birth rates are the lowest in 65 year's. FINALLY!! Maybe in another few year's school's and parent's can convince these kid's that having children that early end's or severly crimp's your ability to suceed in the workplace. You can't get pregnant, quit school, accept government assistance and have a happy and fruitful life--it's unrealistic, not to mention kid's that are not even raised themselves can't in turn raise someone else. Grow up, mature, try life out before you decide you should be a mom girl's--it's not for everyone-some people are simply not cut out to parent.
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