Mississippi Has The Most Teenage Moms

Mississippi Cdc A new federal report finds Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate displacing Texas and New Mexico from the top spot.

by The Associated Press

Published: Wed, January 07, 2009 - 10:45 am CST Last Updated: Wed, January 07, 2009 - 10:52 am CST

ATLANTA (AP) - A new federal report released today finds
Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate,
displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the
national average in 2006. The teen pregnancy rate in Texas and New
Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.
The three states have large proportions of black and Hispanic
teenagers - groups that traditionally have higher birth rates,
experts noted.
The lowest teen birth rates continue to be in New England, where
three states have teen birth rates at just half the national
average.
It's not clear why Mississippi surged into first place. Ron
Cossman, a Mississippi State University researcher who focuses on
children's health statistics, says the state's one-year increase of
nearly 1,000 teen births could be a statistical blip.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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KxVicious Says:

Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:25 am

Well that’s what happens when you don’t advocate safe sex. People need to get off their high horse and face the fact that kids have sex. QUIT TEACHING ABSINANCE! Sure it’s the “right” thing to do, but when you don’t teach kids how to safely have sex, they won’t.

We need to make condoms TRENDY! In most European countries, you are ostracized if you talk about having unprotected sex.

A canadian friend of mine told me something very interesting one time “My favorite thing about touring in the US is that girls let you [have sex with] them without a condom. That would NEVER happen back home.”

Sweetassuga04 Says:

Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:17 am

Lmao KX..while that is very funny (yet still a little nauseating) it’s true. I went to MS to visit family last year…78% of them were running around knocked up. It seems like every time i went to turn a corner over there, a kid walked by pregnant. Then our taxes feed them when they hop on the welfare bus! Speaking my mind…

KxVicious Says:

Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 9:43 am

“It’s not clear why Mississippi surged into first place.”

Well there’s not much else for teenagers to do in Mississippi. It’s harder for them to get drugs and alcohol, so in stead of partying they’re humping.