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Teen Pregnancies, STDs Increase: CDC

Figures raise concerns after positive trends

By Matt Cantor| Posted Jul 20, 09 1:28 PM CDT|

(Newser) – After declining in 1991-2005, the US teen birth rate climbed in 2006 and 2007, HealthDay News reports. Crunching numbers from 2002-07, the Centers for Disease Control found a number of trends had flatlined or worsened after a period of improvement.

2004 saw 745,000 pregnancies among females under 20, including 16,000 among girls 10 to 14 years old.
One-third of adolescents had no birth-control education before age 18.

Syphilis cases are up among both males and females aged 15-24. About 1 million people aged 10-24 were diagnosed with chlamydia, gonorrhea, or syphilis in 2006.
That year, the majority of new HIV diagnoses were in males and young people ages 20-24.
Almost a quarter of females 15-19 and 45% of females 20-24 had HPV in 2003-2004.
Some 100,000 females 10-24 years old sought emergency care for nonfatal sexual assaults from 2004-06.

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It is disheartening that after years of improvement with respect to teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, we now see signs that progress is stalling and many of these trends are going in the wrong direction.
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JonmarkP
Jul 20, 09 1:33 PM CDT

By coincidence, these are the same years Bush stripped funding for education and assistance. Could there be a lesson here, possibly? Reply

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ruserious
Jul 20, 09 2:21 PM CDT

At my college (and colleges nationwide) there was greatly reduced birth control, until Bush cut the funding. I spoke to the PA there, and she said many many girls stopped taking it because they couldn't afford it anymore. I'm sure there's no connection whatsoever to the increased pregnancies.

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freethemall
Jul 20, 09 2:47 PM CDT

I got your meaning 7, in spite of the typo, Good post!

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Cegorach
Jul 20, 09 1:51 PM CDT

You may be right that funding for "sex ed" increased the last few years, but you conveniently forgot to mention that the funding increase was for abstinence only "sex ed", which has been proven to work. Jonmark was right to an extent that real sex ed programs (you know, the ones that teach those kids how to protect themselves, rather than relying on "just don't do it") lost funding

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Cegorach
Jul 20, 09 1:53 PM CDT

damn typos, that should have read "which has been proven *not* to work."

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godawgs
Jul 20, 09 2:09 PM CDT

7ru7h looks like if they paid attention to the abstinence policy we wouldn't be having this conversations huh?

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Cegorach
Jul 20, 09 2:20 PM CDT

@godawgs - you wanna try that again? Are you trying to say that I didn't pay attention and got a girl pregnant? Because I don't have to worry about that because I payed attention in class and use a condom

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godawgs
Jul 20, 09 3:42 PM CDT

@7ru7h if they had paid attention and practiced abstinence then we wouldn't be having the conversation would we?

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Cegorach
Jul 20, 09 4:27 PM CDT

@godawgs - ah... but the problem with that, is abstinence only "sex ed" doesn't work. You tell someone not to do something (especially a teenager), and they will more than likely do it. Better that the teens know what they should do, since they will be doing it anyway, rather than stick your head in the sand an pretend it will go away.

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godawgs
Jul 20, 09 5:31 PM CDT

@7ru7h well we have been pushing condoms and sex ed on teens since I was in school (10 years ago). there are plenty of kids out there who know they are supposed to wear condoms but don't. they know the dangers, of STD's and and teen pregnancies. I love the agruement of they are going to do it anyway, so we should tell them how to do it. So what is next are we as a country going to tell them how to smoke crack, shoot heroin, roll a joint, snort a line or drink and drive? They are going to do it anyway so we should want them to be safe about it right?

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Cegorach
Jul 20, 09 10:12 PM CDT

@godawgs - Reductio ad absurdum is never a good way to frame your argument. There is a big difference between teaching teens how to have safe sex (which is a smart thing to do, hence the "safe"), and teaching kids how to do drugs or something that could kill them. Of course there are the stupid kids that know the risks but do it anyway, but most kids are smart enough to use it.

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Cegorach
Jul 20, 09 2:00 PM CDT

I am not arguing the funding for AIDs, I was arguing your assertion that Jonmark was wrong about the *sex ed* remark. Way to change the subject though.

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Nwambe
Jul 20, 09 1:58 PM CDT

Can you show me from where you got these facts, C_k? Reply

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Fondue
Jul 20, 09 9:29 PM CDT

Ever notice how when confronted with presenting facts, C_k is no where to be seen?

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TerrifiedCitizen
Jul 20, 09 2:24 PM CDT

All the advertising in the world can't make kids any smarter than kids; they still need good parents to guide them. Reply

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Reader64481089
Jul 20, 09 4:27 PM CDT

AMEN!!!

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ClearSight
Jul 20, 09 4:53 PM CDT

Sadly even good parents can't do to much with a child hellbent on living a destructive lifestyle whether straight or gay.....

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Reader64481089
Jul 20, 09 4:27 PM CDT

Well as I have said before and shall say again no matter who doesn't like it. Long ago there was a "Social Stigma" to a girl being or getting pregnant, the parents especially the Mothers actually spoke to their children and engaged them in conversation of such things THEN America decided we needed out morals legislated and parental rights along with parental duties were handed away. Tech young people right from wrong while they are small, when they grow older give them the tools they need to protect themselves as well as Sex Ed in school to appease everyone but if nothing else the Social Stigma of pregnancy did curb premarital sex, STD's, and many other issues. It wasn't 100% effective but a combination of many factors is what it will take to protect young people from themselves. Reply

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Snarfeh
Jul 20, 09 4:38 PM CDT

Hmmm....no offense to my liberal fascist comrades, but it appears that STD's are hitting heterosexuals pretty hard these days. Don't ya'll use protection? Then again, I have to presume it's the repuglicans and their ignorant, un-sex-educated kids who ignorantly fail to use protection. Reply

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godawgs
Jul 20, 09 5:33 PM CDT

there you go when you don't have an argument resort to name calling.

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Snarfeh
Jul 21, 09 9:13 PM CDT

Er, what's to argue? "Just Say No" and teen chastity vows, two repuglican favorite...er, programs, for lack of a better word...failed ridiculously. Here...this guy did the research for both of us...http://healthwise-everythinghealth.blogspot.com/2008/12/ teen-chastity-vows-dont-work.html - there's more evidence, but it ain't my problem, so you can go look for it. I'm sure there's something, somewhere, from a right leaning site to refute it, but I don't need stats to know that teens are horny. Period. It's been that way throughout history, so why anyone would even *consider* chastity vows is beyond my understanding. Really, most of the idiots who support that nonsense had pre-marital sex, without a doubt. So, be my guest...go look...see what you find. I don't much care, because lesbians don't have to worry about oopsie pregnancies & we are the lowest risk group for STD's, but that doesn't mean I'm going to pass up an opp to make fun of stupid repuglicans. Het women are on the increase for STD's because heterosexual males are carriers although they don't always exhibit symptoms. I'm not knocking the het boys; they don't even know they're carrying something harmless to them, but bad for their partners. Bi-sexual men are the reason for the rise in HIV for het women. So, to me, there's nothing to argue. It is what it is & I will always use "repuglicans" because I prefer it. Dawgs, we all stereotype sometimes when we speak generally of a group. Don't take it personally. I think very well of you, strangely enough, even though I don't always agree with you. Oh yeah...PS - goheels...

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Sayyiduna
Jul 20, 09 10:20 PM CDT

Now that we are entering an era of increased sexual freedom and the break down of many barriers and stigmas surrounding sexuality (of the hetero or homo variety) what we truly lack is a new approach to teaching our youth the proper way to go about using this newfound freedom. In my opinion, schools are not the place for this education (sex ed programs have been a resounding failure.) The worst part is that I don't believe parents are well equipped for this either, which makes this entire problem all the more frustrating. The parents try to foist their ideals on the new generation which inevitably bucks the advice anyway because it just doesn't work anymore (culturally speaking.) Most teens now have a choice between parents who rely on abstinence/shame/misinformation at home and the equivalent of learning from lame 20-year-old PSAs at school. Neither is very good at encouraging and handling the byzantine issue of human sexuality correctly. Reply

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Reader65069154
Jul 21, 09 7:53 AM CDT

The lack of morals and discipline in today's youth is alarming. Reply

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fujbubccc
Jul 21, 09 5:32 PM CDT

First of all, I think what you mean when you say that is that we don't have the same morals and discipline that people of older generations have had, which I completely agree with. However, for the most part we are being thrust into the world and all of its complexities faster than people of older generations, so there is a lot more to absorb, and a lot more space in our development for acknoledging the gray areas of morality that make up our world.

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