"After more than a decade of progress, experts fear we've been lulled into a false sense of security. And have stopped pouring resources into prevention."

Yeah, that's the problem; no matter how much money is spent, it's never enough.

Could it perhaps be a case of fewer teenagers having abortions?  

Only a Democrat would use a legal age 18 year old whose parent is a Republican for their poster child on teenage pregnancy. It's the 11,12,13,14 and 15 year old children they don't seem to care about mentioning.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

 Isn't single motherhood and teen pregnancy a good thing according to liberals? Well now I'm just confused

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it - Voltaire

30% of white children are born out of wedlock.

Since I've never seen CBS address the issue of illigitimacy for any other ethnic group, and other ethnic groups are far higher, I must conclude CBS is racist.  It's obvious this is a problem only when white kids fall to it.

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I understand that the MSM hates (with a capital "H") conservatives and Sarah Palin...that goes without saying... But, this attempt by the media to make Bristol Palin the poster girl for teen pregnancy is really low...

These MSM bottom-dwellers are so caught up in their own anti-conservative ideology that they have lost all perspective to the point of castigating an 18 year-old girl for their own twisted, biased purposes.

As far as Bristol becoming pregnant in the first place, yes, it would have been preferable if that situation could have been avoided. But, I am personally heartened that she decided to have her baby, that her fiance and the baby's father, Levi, is in the picture and is supportive, and that she has a very loving and supportive family to be there for all of them.

PS... I have news for these media twits...As bad as the teen pregnancy rate may be today, it is still improved from when I was in high school during the '70's.   

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981

Note that they just lump all "teen pregnancy" together, as if there's no difference. They lump the 15-year-old statutory rape victim, the 13-year-old who was experimenting with her 14-year-old boyfriend, and the 19-year-old married woman all together under the umbrella of "teen pregnancy" without any breakdown.

 After all, "teen pregnancy" was a pretty normal thing when women routinely married in their teens!

 The problem isn't young married (or even young engaged) women having babies. The problem is kid who aren't mature enough to look after even themselves ending up giving birth to children. But they refuse to do a demographic breakdown. Which I find very interesting. 

If teen pregnancy is up, then teen abortion rates must be down.  Could that be the real reason we have such a serious problem?  I'm not saying that teen pregnancy isn't a problem, but there are a lot of reasons for that.  It will be interesting to see if 70% of babies, born in the black community being born to unwed mothers,  goes down because of Obama. (At least he'll get credit for it if it does happen). 

Being 61 years old, I can vouch for the fact that teenagers have been having sex for  years.  Today, this group of teenagers has access to more contraceptives than my generation ever had and yet their pregnancy rate is double that of my generation. 

The biggest difference I can see for this is that pregnancy was unacceptable, when I was growing up.  NOt that it didn't happen, but it was something that everyone agreed they wanted to avoid.  There were times when it wasn't avoided, of course, and that led to many things. First of all, there were abortions available, and I knew a couple of girls that had one.  Secondly, the couple could decide to "do the right thing" and get married, give the child a proper name, and make the most of a bad situation.  Parents would be willing to help, somewhat, but things were expected of you, in return. 

Today, there is little stigma, in the community, for a girl getting pregnant.  Since they're not listening in Sex-Ed class, my guess is they just don't care, in fact some of them actually believe it's a good thing, which is another problem.

If these people want to find a cure for this problem, first they have to understand why it's happening and I can tell you, it's not abstinence.

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

Perhaps another reason they hate Sarah Palin is because she dispels the leftist myth that Conservatives are intolerant and uncaring about unwanted pregnancies.

For decades the message has been:

1) Conservatives are old-fashioned religious fanatics that want to stifle teens' natural sexual "freedom"

2) Conservatives are judgmental and unforgiving if you get pregnant out of wedlock (via exercising your sexual "freedom")

3) Liberals will compassionately and quietly "fix" your pregnancy problem so you can go about your business without feeling guilty.(In truth, your post abortion guilt will be so overwhelming that you will have to become a hardened pro-choice lib in order to deal with it.. which is the true aim)

Right after the pregnancy announcement it seemed that every media story had an undercurrent of trying to apply these myths to the Palins (the Bristol forced-marriage rumor is the most notorious example)  But what people saw on television flew in the face of everything these liberals want the public to believe and indeed what they believe themselves. (see Cheney's 2004 interviews about his gay daughter for another fine example of this)

Between homosexuality, medical and STD sterilization, abortion, contraception, belief in population control/eco fanaticism and simple self centeredness of liberal couples, the Left has a big problem replacing itself.

The fact is, if we were to split the country in half by ideology, the lib side would be mostly extinct in a couple generations. Faced with this reality, they have turned to indoctrinating of the children of others.

Their tight-gripped control of nearly all avenues of entertainment and education for teens are the respective hook and crook of liberalism. While it's tempting to look at this as a conspiracy, its more like a virus that keeps propagating itself through the false suppression of guilt via a stockholm-esque approach to its source.

When Sarah Palin, Bristol, and her family stood out there on stage, people saw forgiveness and love in spite of a teenage pregnancy. A beautiful example of love-the-sinner, hate-the-sin on display for the world.  

The left saw it too, and became hell-bent on destroying her. The fact that they continue attacking a VP candidate two full months after her ticket lost the election is evidence that rather than being a mere political opponent, she represents a very real and very dangerous threat to the foundation of liberalism itself.

The real "crisis" is that the rates of teen ABORTIONS are declining, and not a rise in the rates of teen pregnancies.  The real "crisis" here is that more and more teens are KEEPING the babies and not aborting them.  As to how this is an actual "crisis," I have no idea. Teens have been having babies since, well, since there have been teens.  The human race has survived this "crisis" for our entire history.  

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