from Headcount.org: Is Forever 21 Normalizing Teen Pregnancy?

originally posted right here.

One teen blogger is “freaking pissed” over retailer Forever 21′s recently launched maternity line–marketed specifically in states with the highest teen pregnancy rates. Julie Z. writes, “Having a clothing line specified for teen pregnancy brings the normalization to an all time high, and capitalizing on this ‘phenomenon’ is gross. Now we don’t even have to give up fashion to be a mommy, not to mention that every time we go into that store we are again hit with the idea ‘teen pregnancy is just not that big a deal.’”

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Sam Patton

Parent’s Just Don’t Understand!!!

They just don’t, I mean, How could they? It’s not like they were our age or something. Below, an article that I read and Jacked from Bossip.com about parents who think their kids are perfect little angels and their friends are just the wrong crowd. Earth to Mom and in some cases, Dad!!! Your children are the wrong crowd….lol
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“Parents I interviewed had a very hard time thinking about their own teen children as sexually desiring subjects,” said study researcher Sinikka Elliott, an assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University. “At the same time, parents view their teens’ peers as highly sexual, even sexually predatory.”

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DJWillieShakes

Son, you’re not a big boy yet

Alright, LISTEN. I’m man enough to admit it.

Sometimes I read Fox News.

Mostly for the lolz. And ’cause you and I both know, if you wanna get the scoop on freaky actions perpetrated by the cream of the crazy crop, Fox News is like…the Wal Mart of low, low prices taste.

But the following story – jacked from Fox – isn’t distasteful. It is, however, about extra-small condoms for little Swedish boys whose bodies are telling them yes yes yes and brains are telling them no no no to wrapping that ish up! So you might be offended.

I quote:

A leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland has created extra-small condoms for boys as young as 12 years old, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reported.

The condom, called the Hotshot, was produced after family planning groups and the Swiss AIDS Federation campaigned to have the condoms made following several studies that showed adolescent boys were not using proper protection when engaging in intercourse.

Uhh, what?! I’d score this as follows:

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Sam Patton

Less Condoms=More Teenage Pregnancy

Being a teen is hard enough. Being a teenage mother is infinitely harder—and according to a study by John Santelli of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, there are more and more teens who are becoming moms. Nearly 4 in 10 American teens will be preggers by age 20, and a whopping 445 000 of them will give birth. At those rates, America is the teenage pregnancy capital of the Western World.

Having a baby is a wonderful, beautiful act—but there is a time and a place for it. When a teenager gives birth, the odds of her or her baby having a fulfilling life are significantly lower than if she had waited until she was in her twenties. Teen moms are more likely to drop out of school, receive welfare, and have more children within a couple of years. In turn, the children of teen moms will statistically have poorer health and inferior results in school than their peers who had parents who gave birth later on. Children from teen pregnancies are also more likely to end up in prison (if they’re sons) or giving birth while still teenagers (if they’re daughters).

Which is why Santelli’s study is so disturbing. It shows that teenagers are having kids at a higher rate, not necessarily because they desire children at that stage in life but because they are not taking simple precautions to prevent it. The use of contraceptives is going down, leaving health educators wondering where the f*%# they went wrong. Because, instead of using a condom, youth are trying the “withdrawal method,” and even the “let’s not use anything” approach—otherwise known as the “I’m playing Russian Roulette with my girlfriend’s future” approach. Hell, the guys should be worried too, because STIs tend to spread a lot faster when there’s no condom to stop them (and by “tend to” I mean DO).
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Yolanda Clatworthy