Smart

Their bodies will snap back in no time and they’ll have lots of energy to be involved in their kids’ lives through most of it

Anonymous wrote:Depends on how common Greek life is at the school.

The only people I knew who got pregnant were date raped at frat parties. The frat guys don't tend to use protection and assume every woman is one the pill and available.

That's why the frats call freshmen "fresh meat." It's best to stay away from the frat parties until sophomore year, when you've grown a little wiser.

Not very common.

The people who couldn't figure out contraceptives got pregnant in HS.

and this is why I plan to have my teen implanted with some sort of long term birth control before she goes to college....with her consent of course, before you jump down my throat.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can thank legalized abortion and contraceptive availability for the rarity. All that is at risk right now with the Republicans. Sad to know there will be many young women and their families along with young men and their families faced with the consequences of unwanted pregnancies.

I am fervently pro-choice and contraception, but more work has to be done with at-risk girls. They need aspirations other than becoming an unwed mother and receiving government subsidies as their path to “adulthood.” This segment of young women were giving birth despite available contraception and abortion.

Yes, being an "unwed mother" and receiving meager government subsidies is living it up! It's a gem of a life.

I was not trotting out the old “Welfare Queen” trope. I know benefits are scant and realize the difference between an unwed mother and a single mother is education and income. I just don’t think it’s lack of contraception or access to abortions behind these choices that perpetuate generational poverty. Just like food deserts, they made great clickbait and blurbs, but studies showed that poor families didn’t make better nutritional choices when Supermarkets with fruit and vegetables were available. These issues are nuanced and complex.

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Anonymous wrote:You can thank legalized abortion and contraceptive availability for the rarity. All that is at risk right now with the Republicans. Sad to know there will be many young women and their families along with young men and their families faced with the consequences of unwanted pregnancies.

I am fervently pro-choice and contraception, but more work has to be done with at-risk girls. They need aspirations other than becoming an unwed mother and receiving government subsidies as their path to “adulthood.” This segment of young women were giving birth despite available contraception and abortion.

Yes, being an "unwed mother" and receiving meager government subsidies is living it up! It's a gem of a life.

Anonymous wrote:You can thank legalized abortion and contraceptive availability for the rarity. All that is at risk right now with the Republicans. Sad to know there will be many young women and their families along with young men and their families faced with the consequences of unwanted pregnancies.

+10000000000000000

Anonymous wrote:Pregnant , very common

Having the baby, very uncommon

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pregnant , very common

Having the baby, very uncommon

Ding ding ding

Of course.

All "not very common at all" responses are laughably naive

Your mistaking majority with very common.

Anonymous wrote:You can thank legalized abortion and contraceptive availability for the rarity. All that is at risk right now with the Republicans. Sad to know there will be many young women and their families along with young men and their families faced with the consequences of unwanted pregnancies.

I am fervently pro-choice and contraception, but more work has to be done with at-risk girls. They need aspirations other than becoming an unwed mother and receiving government subsidies as their path to “adulthood.” This segment of young women were giving birth despite available contraception and abortion.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pregnant , very common

Having the baby, very uncommon

Ding ding ding

Of course.

All "not very common at all" responses are laughably naive

It'll get more common in the south soon. Not with families who can afford plane tickets, but poorer students without resources will find themselves in awful positions.

Anonymous wrote:VT my daughter’s freshman year half of her hall was no alcohol no men they signed a pledge. Mine was not in that part of the hall.

2 pregnant first semester 3 second semester
Girls drank like fishes.

My daughter moved to an apartment for quiter soundings and less idiots who came to college with zero sex ed

She loved VT engineering however freshman year her eyes got widened to the disparity of parenting and intelligence. Her words not mine.

Sure

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pregnant , very common

Having the baby, very uncommon

Ding ding ding

Of course.

All "not very common at all" responses are laughably naive

You can thank legalized abortion and contraceptive availability for the rarity. All that is at risk right now with the Republicans. Sad to know there will be many young women and their families along with young men and their families faced with the consequences of unwanted pregnancies.

Anonymous wrote:Freshman can be a single 17 or married 22, not everyone is a traditional student doing things at average speed.

Especially at community college. Very common to have single mothers at young ages there. However, the drop out rate is still very high. As is remedial high school English and math students.