Report: Texas teen birth rate third highest

..... but of course idiots like Don McLeroy of the Texas State Board of Education want kids to know "abstinence only" programs in the High Schools.

When kids have babies the upbringing and parental roles is in question.

WHERE are the parents?!

WHERE are the values?!

The "firecrotch" syndrum needs to be hosed down and the "boyfriends" scattered by big daddies.

Science wrote:

..... but of course idiots like Don McLeroy of the Texas State Board of Education want kids to know "abstinence only" programs in the High Schools.

VALUES don't need condoms.

Welcome to the border. Shocked? Well, why not have a baby while stil in school? After all, our system offers free daycare and takes care of the babies while we also pay to TRY to educate the irresponsible child-parents. Like it or not, teen pregnancy is a cultural phenmomenon and way of life here in El Paso.

So here's the question for the day: are unwed teens with babies allowed to draw welfare while attending school and still living with their parents? If so, it's just one more way we reward bad behavior.

...but of course most conservatives, who also oppose welfare, are also again planned parenthood and other sex education programs.

First in uninsured persons, third in teen pregnancy and last in sex education, Texas and Rick Perry continues to "shine."

Welcome to the Border wrote:

Welcome to the border. Shocked? Well, why not have a baby while stil in school? After all, our system offers free daycare and takes care of the babies while we also pay to TRY to educate the irresponsible child-parents. Like it or not, teen pregnancy is a cultural phenmomenon and way of life here in El Paso.
So here's the question for the day: are unwed teens with babies allowed to draw welfare while attending school and still living with their parents? If so, it's just one more way we reward bad behavior.
...but of course most conservatives, who also oppose welfare, are also again planned parenthood and other sex education programs.

There is this here culture that thinks they need to prove their love for some looser cholo.

They have NO guidence as to how to direct their hormones, no values from home.

The liprals empowered the welfare system to pay the baby having babies and they discovered the gravy train...working from home, what a great deal.

It is time to end the cycle of poverty, the school of hard knocks needs to come back.
baby # 2 should REDUCE benefits by half...

Texas is for losers wrote:

First in uninsured persons, third in teen pregnancy and last in sex education, Texas and Rick Perry continues to "shine."

Most of them escaped from NM, seems the DUI badge is the NM State logo.

no values wrote:

When kids have babies the upbringing and parental roles is in question.
WHERE are the parents?!
WHERE are the values?!
The "firecrotch" syndrum needs to be hosed down and the "boyfriends" scattered by big daddies.

Where are the parents? Why they're now here in the USA - that's where. The values are from back home of course where they breed out of control even without all the welfare handouts like food stamps and WIC.

Welcome to America. Come here illegally and start popping out the bambinos and you'll never have to worry about working for a living again.

The girls get royal treatment at school. Roll out the red carpet for the pregnant girls!! Give them welfare, food stamps, free medical treatment, cell phones, extra days off for illness and what do you get? Even more pregnant girls. They are living the high life. They have power over the teachers, too, because the fill seats, which equals money.

Texas is for losers wrote:

First in uninsured persons, third in teen pregnancy and last in sex education, Texas and Rick Perry continues to "shine."

LOL, you are some kind of clown, aren't you?

Here are the top three in order.

No. 1- Mississippi.

No. 2: New Mexico.

No. 3: Texas.

http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparemaptab...

Do your research before you start throwing stones.

Here in Victoria County, the teen birth rate is 18%.

Unless and until comprehensive sex education, i.e., how to make wise choices is put in schools statewide, this will continue to be a problem.

In a perfect world, parents would do the teaching of this topic, but since we're not, the rest of us are going to have to see that something besides abstinence based education is available.

The war on poverty declared 40 years ago is a miserable failure. We have more living below the poverty line than ever before.

In today's society we provide health care, food, housing, child care, and medical to name a few programs. Because society provides these benefits, the beneficiaries knows that the burden of raising a child is not all on them. If the cost of raising a child was solely with the parent, I believe there would be less teen age pregnancies or more adoptions.

When a person becomes 100% responsible for their actions, they have a different mindset than if they only have to be responsible for a fraction of the cost of raising the child.

And the poverty cycle continues and the real losers are the children.

This is obviously an issue where good parents can make a difference, but one thing is certain government welfare have not helped the situation, it has only made more people dependent on government. With all the money spent on these programs, you would think that they would offer free birth control as that would be much less expensive. But the church goers would not like that.

Hillary got her wish, it does take a village to raise a child.

Is anyone old enough to remember such terms as "shotgun wedding" or "they had to get married". Those type of terms are long gone as most of these kids will be raised in single parent families, hardly an ideal situation for the kids.

If people were held accountable for their actions, there would be far fewer unwanted pregnancies.

JDC, that's funny, I remeber the term Shotgun plus the stigma of being an unwed mother.

Hillary took a BS line from the ancient days that people lived in small villages, therefore did raise the children. We now live in large cities and everyone works, but some loved that line and swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

Rey wrote:

JDC, that's funny, I remeber the term Shotgun plus the stigma of being an unwed mother.
Hillary took a BS line from the ancient days that people lived in small villages, therefore did raise the children. We now live in large cities and everyone works, but some loved that line and swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

Hillary took that line because it was a gentler way to say socialism.

She never meant for a "village" to raise a child because that would be too constitutional, that would imply something at the local level and all Hillary cares about is all-powerful federal government. The "village" meant Washington DC of course, the politicians.

Pregnant in EPISD wrote:

The girls get royal treatment at school. Roll out the red carpet for the pregnant girls!! Give them welfare, food stamps, free medical treatment, cell phones, extra days off for illness and what do you get? Even more pregnant girls. They are living the high life. They have power over the teachers, too, because the fill seats, which equals money.

are you for real? walk in the shoes of a teen parent...instead of throwing stones people should applaud them for not dropping out of school. and no it is not just the poor mexican or the poor black or the poor white student...kids from all levels of income get pregnant! kids are having sex starting in 5th grade...every 10 minutes a teen in tx gets pregnant...we need a comprehensive sex education and puritans like you need to educate themselves instead of just talking without educating yourself. tx is #3 in the nation ms is #1 and nm#2. where are the parents...well some are at the country club, traveling through europe, some are working 2 jobs to put food on the table...this is a social problem not a class, or socio economic problem!

Rey wrote:

JDC, that's funny, I remeber the term Shotgun plus the stigma of being an unwed mother.

You should know us stoners are funny. LOL!

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a teenager wrote:

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are you for real? walk in the shoes of a teen parent...instead of throwing stones people should applaud them for not dropping out of school. and no it is not just the poor mexican or the poor black or the poor white student...kids from all levels of income get pregnant! kids are having sex starting in 5th grade...every 10 minutes a teen in tx gets pregnant...we need a comprehensive sex education and puritans like you need to educate themselves instead of just talking without educating yourself. tx is #3 in the nation ms is #1 and nm#2. where are the parents...well some are at the country club, traveling through europe, some are working 2 jobs to put food on the table...this is a social problem not a class, or socio economic problem!

Just keep telling yourself that.

They need to educate them on the miracle birth control of holding an apple between their knees.

They should start holding the parents on both sides of the parties and charge them the child support for every teenager having a baby !!! Maybe the parents might be a srticter on their sons or daughters and have second thoughts on what they are doing or hanging around with!!!