Comments on: Scary Statistics: 53% of Young Latinas Got Pregnant in Their Teens

By: analog/digital

analog/digital — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:45:12 +0000

Looking at this stat and the overall immigration situation, I think things are really going to come to a head in two to three decades. Huge swaths of this country are populated by people who can’t speak the main language of this country…(English by the way!) Thanks to satellite tv, cable and 10,000 tv stations catering to every language group, a person can move to this country and never need to learn to speak or write English, increasing the chances of the eventual break up of this country. I can imagine a future where the country breaks up into three or even four semi-autonomous zones, which means that we will end up a third rate world power, because China, which by the way has survived being such a huge colossus because of their imposition of language acquisition on their people, will end up being the Hyper-power eventually.

By: Byrd Brain

Byrd Brain — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:26:38 +0000

Teenage pregnancy is just one of those great experiences that will allow these women to have the wisdom needed to make better decisions than white men. It has been proven that only minorities have experiences in life that give them experience.

And then, if lucky, be chosen based on gender and race and not merit, to legislate from the bench in the highest court of the United States.

By: Ally

Ally — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:39:36 +0000

As a person of Latin American origin, I can attest that culture and religion influence the high pregnancy rates. However, I would say the biggest contributing factor is that the majority of Hispanic men are not taught that condoms are a pre-coital necessity, and a most Hispanic women are not taught to be assertive enough to demand them.

@ Madcap, bambinos are for Italian people, and grammas are for Americans. Hispanic women have “bebes”, and a grandmother is an “abuela”.

By: ViveCanta

ViveCanta — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:20:55 +0000

lol jules

By: jules

jules — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:32:51 +0000

its a strange thing.
every girl in my family has had at least one kid before they turned 19.
i turned 19 last thursday.
no babies yet.
but i’m gay so that might have something to do with it.

By: Mouserz

Mouserz — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:54:56 +0000

Too bad I’m white…. and male.

By: madcap

madcap — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:15:45 +0000

As someone who’s lived in the southwest for years off and on,
I can attest to the fact that teen pregnancy is encouraged in the Latino
community – have seen mothers of teens put the expectation/pressure of pregnancy onto a teen so that the girl will bring home a bambino to “gramma” to raise. To a degree this also happens in the black community.

By: emmiline valentine

emmiline valentine — Sun, 24 May 2009 07:45:42 +0000

miss cellania- i love you.

stacey- i get the feeling you didn’t actually read any of that, you just busted out the soap box.
people are biologically programmed to want to be sexually active, especially when they’re young and in the best health. but you have to remember that our populations were very small when we were carving out an existance for ourselves. life has changed a lot for us in a short amount of time, and biology is still trying to catch up. we’ve got a lot of sex drive and a lot of people making it out of childhood that wouldn’t have 10,000 years, heck, even 100 years ago. all that sex drive nowadays turns into a massive population boom that quite frankly, we can barely support.
if you want thousands of children born to unwilling, and unable parents to be raised who-knows-how, that’s your opinion- but keep in mind that (whether you believe it or not) evolution pushes us to produce more offspring than our ecosystem can support simply for the best possible genetic outcome.
my best advice to you is to worry about living the best life you can, and keeping your nose out of other people’s business.

By: ViveCanta

ViveCanta — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:06:46 +0000

Im a latina…in her teens…. o crap…im next.

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:06:18 +0000

Why take responsibility for your reproduction when Uncle Sam will gladly pay you money to have babies.

By: Dude

Dude — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:55:43 +0000

Neat

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:13:46 +0000

stacey, I don’t see where you get “less than 10% go on the have the baby”. If you are using the birthrate per year, that does NOT reflect the “53% get pregnant in their teens”, because a girl’s teen years cover more than one year.

By: Wes

Wes — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:10:17 +0000

Stacey, that’s why we need proper sex education. Outlawing abortion won’t change people’s sex drive.

By the way, the plural of Latina is Latinas.

By: namcap

namcap — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:34:45 +0000

Whites and blacks make up the higher numbers of teens actually getting PREGNANT. But Latinos have higher rates of giving LIVE BIRTHS because, abortion is less accepted in the Latino community. Other groups have just as many teens getting pregnant, they are just more likely to have abortions.

By: stacey

stacey — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:22:22 +0000

50 percent got pregnant but less than 10% go on to have the baby / Reading between the lines, that is that what this says! So the real headline should be something like “40 percent of young couples are running around like dogs in heat and trashing their newborn”, welcome to pro choice brave new world where people can choose to have standards no better than animals.

By: lameramera

lameramera — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:03:59 +0000

this isnt neat at all!

By: skidworth

skidworth — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:26:26 +0000

perhaps the latinos, being predominantly catholic, don’t use birth control.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:25:43 +0000

Kalel – you sure you’re doing it right?

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:25:15 +0000

Which end of teens makes a difference – there’s a world of difference between thirteen and nineteen. Neither is great as an age to start having kids, but one’s far far worse than the other.

By: Kalel

Kalel — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:00:58 +0000

It doesn’t help that sex is really, really fun.

By: Reechard

Reechard — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:47:39 +0000

South Park has an explanation…

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/165718

and as expected, it’s extremely offensive