Teen pregnancy rate lowest since 1969

Jimmy_31

wotsthat wrote: »

You were just pretending you wanted to leave your estate weren't you?

No.

Why dont we both go and ask NASA for a job and together we can explore space.

Dont make a show of me though.

Jimmy_31

RenovationMan wrote: »

You labelled yourself as that. You said you saw lots of mums dropping off their kids at school while still wearing their pyjamas. You have never mentioned that you had kids (unlike myself) and so I didn't see any reason for you to be near these schools and so I asked if you had started hanging around schools instead of building sites now.

My answer to your question of whether I was a '!!!!!!' was that you were the person hanging around schools, looking at mum's attire, not me. Logic you see, you're hanging around schools enough to notice the Mum's clothing and I am not. Therefore, no I am not.

Renovation man, you are the one who came up with me hanging around schools.

Ive never said i hang around schools.

Take that in and apply some logical thinking to it, see if you can figure out how i can see women dressed in pyjamas dropping their kids off at school, without me actually hanging around a school. (i wont answer this for you because it is so simple to figure out)

You said i was hanging around schools (you made that up), i asked you if you were a !!!!!! and your reply was that i was the one hanging around schools (dont forget you made that bit up)

That logical enough for you.

Its common knowledge what people mean when they accuse somebody of hanging around schools.

Jimmy_31

RenovationMan wrote: »

So, why is a bloke with no kids hanging around schools often enough to notice the Mum's clothing?

You will have to answer that question yourself as your own mind has invented the hanging around schools thing.

Are you trying to embarrass me because if you are you are doing a 5hit job of it.

SingleSue

Pennywise wrote: »

I wonder how much of the rise in the 30+ and 40+ age group is due to benefit claimants suddenly realising that the gravy train stops when their youngest child becomes an adult? I know far too many lifestyle claimants who've had another child in the late 30s or early 40s after a gap of 15 years or so when they realised that the end of the cushy lifestyle was approaching. Pop another out and their benefits are preserved for another 18 years taking them well into their 50's - not far away from "retirement"!

That would be my worst nightmare! Granted, I am not the most motherly person on the planet but having to start from the beginning again....shudder.

Thankfully, not something I need to worry about, my baby making days were stopped for good at age 31.

SingleSue

Just because someone gets pregnant whilst still in their teens, does not mean they have had a poor upbringing or are after benefits and social housing.

My mum was 17, my dad 19 when they were expecting their first child, it was all planned, they were married, dad was working...it was the normal thing to do really.

They have now been married for almost 52 years, lived in their own purchased house for 42 and a bit years (rented privately prior to that due to dad working construction with short term contracts) and were never reliant on the welfare state.

pqrdef

Has anybody pointed out yet that figures for conceptions aren't necessarily correlated with figures for births?

Most of the girls included in these stats are girls who have unprotected sex without any intention of having a baby, but prefer to wait and see rather than going for the morning-after pill.

But I believe the morning-after pill is becoming more popular, and that alone may be enough to account for this improvement.

wotsthat

pqrdef wrote: »

Has anybody pointed out yet that figures for conceptions aren't necessarily correlated with figures for births?

Most of the girls included in these stats are girls who have unprotected sex without any intention of having a baby, but prefer to wait and see rather than going for the morning-after pill.

But I believe the morning-after pill is becoming more popular, and that alone may be enough to account for this improvement.

They are correlated. The definition of conception in the report is a pregnancy which leads to maternity or abortion. Abortion rates are static so there are less pregnancies to teenagers which lead to birth.

The morning after pill is being used more but by assuming that this reduction is all down to that is doing a disservice to young women and health professionals.

There's better sex education and access to contraception generally (MAP included). The Labour government put a big effort into this area and these figures (from 2010) seem to indicate a degree of success.

John_Pierpoint

A lot of working couples are spacing kids 5 years apart because they cannot afford two lots of child care at once.
Too many lazy grandparents living on benefits perhaps?

Do schools still do the experiment of giving pupils the realistic baby doll to see how many of them kill it over the weekend?