The nation's teen birth rate has risen for the first time in 14 years, according to a new government report.
The birth rate had been dropping since 1991. The decline had slowed in recent years, but government statisticians said Wednesday it jumped 3 percent from 2005 to 2006.
- Report: U.S. teen births rise
This, after years and years of federally funded abstinence only sex education classes?
I’m shocked. Shocked!
Since all of these teenagers must be listening carefully (as teenagers do) and abstaining consistently (as teenagers also do), the only possible explanation I can see is a rise in the rate of immaculate conception.
…and, some impending sanity from my home state of Ohio…
An Ohio school board is expanding sex education following the revelation that 13 percent of one high school's female students were pregnant last year.
- Sex Ed Changes At School With 65 Pregnant Teens
