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2007-07-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-07-13 08:08|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 I blame Playstation and XBox for reducing the effects of the traditional onset of adolescent male hormone activities seen since the beginning of the era of the unsupervised adult environment that started in the late 60's or early '70s.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-07-13 09:25|| 2007-07-13 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Fewer high school students are having sex these days, and more are using condoms, ~~and more are having abortions~~. The teen birth rate has hit a record low.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-13 09:38|| 2007-07-13 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Welfare reform of 1994. Teen pregnancy had been trending up until then. When teenage mothers were no longer given taxpayer housing and welfare payments the birth rate dropped noticeably, esp in the inner cities where several generations had used that as their career path.

Posted by ed 2007-07-13 09:59|| 2007-07-13 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 And, in addition, ed, as the article notes, women have noticed the effect thingy on children and are not (as much) buying in to the whole feminazi/woman revolution thingy anymore. It's remarkable to me that we're pulling it off, but ALL of my friends who are married and have kids have the wife staying home with junior (or at least, have the wife working from home). It's tough financially, but the results are amazing and will help this nation right the wrong course we took after the 60's "revolution."

Posted by BA 2007-07-13 10:40|| 2007-07-13 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not just women who've noticed the effect thingy on children. (Hi, BA!) We're friends with several families where the wife has the career and the husband stays/works from home. Most people simply don't have the energy and the organization to have it all and do right by the children. Those who do have my awe and admiration, but they turned out not to be as common as we thought, back in the day.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-13 12:13|| 2007-07-13 12:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Teenage latina pregnancy rate soaring, however.
As the late great Casey Stengel said "You can look it up!"

Posted by borgboy 2007-07-13 12:48|| 2007-07-13 12:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Hi, TW! It's been a while, I know, but I had to take a Sabbatical and relax some. Now that I'm "recharged" I'ma ready to blog.

Posted by BA 2007-07-13 12:49|| 2007-07-13 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 I guess this "good news" is locational. About 11 of the girls my daughter went to school with or was friends with have gotten pregnant and had a child. Three of them have gotten married after having a child. The other eight mainly relied on mom and dad, State welfare, or federal largesse to survive. We have one of the children in our custody, and he has some major problems. At least one, and possibly two of the others are also being reared by grandparents. Two of them are now pregnant with a second child.

Until we make it unpopular to have children out of wedlock - including making it financially unpopular - and stop glamorizing casual sex, we'll continue having children having kids, with all the social baggage that engenders.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-07-13 22:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-13 22:49|| Front Page Top

#9 OP - it's always location, location location.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-13 22:59|| 2007-07-13 22:59|| Front Page Top

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