Comments on: More teenagers giving birth! Ack! Run around like a chicken with your head cut off! Ack! http://karenrayne.com/2007/12/11/more-teenagers-giving-birth-ack-run-around-like-a-chicken-with-your-head-cut-off-ack/ Thu, 17 May 2012 23:22:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Robert http://karenrayne.com/2007/12/11/more-teenagers-giving-birth-ack-run-around-like-a-chicken-with-your-head-cut-off-ack/comment-page-1/#comment-399 Robert Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:37:51 +0000 http://karenrayne.com/2007/12/11/more-teenagers-giving-birth-ack-run-around-like-a-chicken-with-your-head-cut-off-ack/#comment-399 I guess I stand in middle. I try to be part of the solution - consistent and clear with my communication and accurate and open with information - but I know that I can tongue tied and awkward. On the broader topic of birth rates - the slight single year bump in teen pregnancy rates doesn't seem like a major deal. Trends are more important than the data for any one year. But for the most part, I do think teenagers are generally not ready to have children. Yes, there are exceptions, but as a general rule fewer teen births are better. The overall indicators were pretty much all bad in my eyes. Overall higher birth rates - not good. More C-Section - not good. More preemies - not good. I guess I stand in middle. I try to be part of the solution - consistent and clear with my communication and accurate and open with information - but I know that I can tongue tied and awkward.

On the broader topic of birth rates - the slight single year bump in teen pregnancy rates doesn’t seem like a major deal. Trends are more important than the data for any one year.

But for the most part, I do think teenagers are generally not ready to have children. Yes, there are exceptions, but as a general rule fewer teen births are better.

The overall indicators were pretty much all bad in my eyes. Overall higher birth rates - not good. More C-Section - not good. More preemies - not good.

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