DarrylS

Do you believe that a study published 12 years ago is salient to this discussion...that was right after the sweeping welfare reform bill was passed..

Encourage you to keep googling, should come up with something to prove yoru point..

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DarrylS

How would you respond if I posted a response from Huffington Post and Mother Jones???..

Keep googling though, there must be something out there that can help prove your point.

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PatsWSB47

I posted one that might be considered current from the Washington Post dated 2-2-2010 in another thread. Maybe we should find a more current one from this afternoon?

As I remind myself, keep an open mind. That goes for everyone.

washingtonpost.com

patsfan13

The OP may as well have been from that sort of source. The people who did the 'stuy' had an agenda. Iposted the critique so people can make their won evaluation.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Leave No Doubt

I'm glad someone brought this up; I mentioned the rise of teen pregnancies awhile ago in relation to something else but regardless, I hate to see this circle the drain as simply a partisan issue. Or even a pro-choice/ pro-life issue.

Remember Bebe Gloton, the world's first breastfeeding doll that made the news here in the US? The ad shows a little girl maybe about 10(?) wearing a vest with a flower that functioned as a nipple and came with a doll that suckled the flower/breast on the little girl's vest/chest.

Point being, when that sort of bizarre item came out, people made it about all kinds of issues including breast-feeding vs bottle-feeding ( which shows you just how far things can be spun lol) but the bottom line really wasn't addressed. The bottom line being the sexualization of children, specifically little/young girls. Jon Benet Ramsey, that scene hasn't gone away by a long shot. "Little Miss Perfect" and "Toddlers and Tiaras" are current reality tv shows and I don't know who among us wouldn't be just a little creeped out on some level by this whole phenomenon which is what's a the real bottom of the rise in teenage pregnancies.

Great article and the ad for Bebe Gloton: Spanish Toy Maker Introduces World's First Breastfeeding Doll? ¿YQué? - The Unnecesarean -

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edit...2012 BABY!

2000army

This has to do with ****ty parents not politics ... I dont blame the Dems or Repub's for this. Personal responsibility is diminishing because parents don't want to be the "bad guy" and discipline their kids

Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Ah Ha - so it WAS Sarah Palin's fault that Bristol got pregnant!!!

2000army

It is Bristol's fault..... and when someone is that young than it is the parents fault so yes Sarah can be partially blamed.

tanked_as_usual

why? has human nature changed that much in 12 years?

the number make total sense in just about any period of time

DarrylS

Welfare has and that is what the discussion is about.. want some pointers in the history of welfare let me know..

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