What percent of girls in high school get pregnant

What percentage of teenage girls get pregnant in high school?

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In 2001, the latest year for which statistics are available, 8.4% teen girls became pregnant. ChaCha!

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Q: They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. Everybody knows it’s important to speak English… except these knuckleheads. Mushmouth is what they speak! You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads throwing that all away. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18? And, how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father? People putting their clothes on backward: Isn’t that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something? They’re walking around with their nasty underwear showing, and holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground! Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up to her panty line, and got all types of needle piercings going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail. Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different ‘husbands’ — or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids saying… you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. We cannot blame the white people any longer. It is not for media or anyone of this time anymore to say whether I’m right or wrong. It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to look at the numbers. Fifty percent of our children are dropping out of high school. Sixty percent of the incarcerated males happen to be illiterate. There’s a correlation. Tell the media to stop asking me what I think about people who don’t believe what I’m saying or feel that I’m too harsh or feel that I’m just running my mouth because I’m old. Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls. Don’t ask me to soften my message.isthisparadise1962 is correct…

A: Bill cosby

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Q: Can’t Blame White People by Bill Cosby They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk Everybody knows it’s important to speak English… except these knuckleheads. Mushmouth is what they speak!? You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living. People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads throwing that all away.? The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18? And, how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father? People putting their clothes on backward: Isn’t that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something? They’re walking around with their nasty underwear showing, and holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground! Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up to her panty line, and got all types of needle piercings going through her body? What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa . With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail. Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different ‘husbands’ — or men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids saying… you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. We cannot blame the white people any longer. It is not for media or anyone of this time anymore to say whether I’m right or wrong. It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to look at the numbers. Fifty percent of our children are dropping out of high school. Sixty percent of the incarcerated males happen to be illiterate. There’s a correlation. Tell the media to stop asking me what I think about people who don’t believe what I’m saying or feel that I’m too harsh or feel that I’m just running my mouth because I’m old. Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls. Don’t ask me to soften my message. Bill Cosby

A: I think white people assume erroneously that all blacks blame them for their problems. With inner city people like the people he’s referring to in his letter, they’re lost. They come from generations upon generation of people who didn’t value education and integrity. While they’re not totally to blame, as history has shown, they chose their own paths in life. I’m not one of the blacks who blame whites. I’m not the person Bill is referring to in his letter, either.Blacks have a lot of issues to deal with. A part from family guidance, I blame the hip-hop community, as well, because I feel they are glorifying those very things discussed in this letter for monetary gain, which is disgusting considering the amount of blacks who are in prison or dead because of the very acts glamorized in rap songs.In essence, we’re all to blame to a certain degree. I’m to blame for not trying to go back to the inner city and mentor. But, honestly, I don’t feel they want a mentor. My mother, on the other hand, is a principal and has worked in the public school system for over 20 years. She’s dedicated her life to helping inner city kids and she’s led a lot of them to the right path. If only more people were like my mother, maybe we could save some of these kids.It’s pretty much hopeless for the adults, but it’s the kids that hurts my heart because they’re only products of their environments. They haven’t been given a chance because their parents are deadbeats, smoking weed all day, not caring what their children are doing. The mothers are bringing multiple men into the household, dressing like whores and wondering why their daughters are pregnant at 14.Yes, there’s definitely a problem here.

Will “Candie’s Foundation” be helped by this role model? GMA interview May 6 for Prevent Teen Pregnancy?

Q: She has a healthy baby boy who has just learned to sit up, but Bristol Palin said she’s using her fame to tell other teens to do what she didn’t do — abstain from sex. “Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only … 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy,” she told “Good Morning America” today, backing away from a previous statement on Fox News that abstinence wasn’t realistic, saying it was taken out of context. The spotlight has been on the 18-year-old since her pregnancy was announced a few days after her mother accepted the offer to become the GOP’s vice presidential nominee. She’s now using that spotlight to promote a national campaign to raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention. The daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was appointed as a teen ambassador for the New York City-based Candie’s Foundation because she believes she could be a living example of the consequences of teen pregnancy, which is foundation’s mission. Palin’s is a poignant message on this National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. “I don’t see myself as a celebrity; I don’t want to be one,” she said. “But I think using this experience in my life to help others, I think it’s a blessing.” Palin said telling her mother and father that she was pregnant was “harder than labor.” “I knew that it would be a huge shock and a huge surprise for my parents,” she said, adding that their disappointment eventually turned into support. “I hope that me speaking out now will prevent girls from having to do that in the future.” Palin said son Tripp, born in December, is sitting up, rolling over and starting to giggle. “He’s doing awesome,” she said. “He’s getting so big and so chubby.” But Palin said he life consists mainly of school, diapers, bottles and chores, all on a “few hours of sleep.” “It’s a 24-hour job and that’s a huge responsibility,” she said. “Your priorities completely change once you have a baby.” But Palin said giving up the baby or terminating the pregnancy was never an option. “I knew from the second I found out I was pregnant I was going to keep the baby,” she said. Still, if she could do it all over again, Palin said she would wait to have sex. “My son is a blessing. He’s the best thing that ever happened to me He’s the love of my life but I do wish that years from now I could have had the same son.” Bristol Palin Wants Levi Johnston in Son’s LifeThe September 2008 revelation that the then 17-year-old high school senior was pregnant ignited a cultural debate about sexual education. The story not only received media play because her mother was the Republican vice presidential nominee, but also because of Sarah Palin’s abstinence-only education leanings. Studies show that 80 percent of pregnant teens don’t marry the fathers of their babies, which includes Bristol Palin. Though she and then boyfriend Levi Johnston announced their engagement once the news of their pregnancy was revealed, the pair broke up shortly after the birth of their son. The former couple’s relationship has since been tenuous, at best, with 19-year-old Johnston being labeled as a deadbeat dad by Sarah Palin’s father. Johnston has said the Palins have limited his access to Tripp since the breakup, which he said was mutual. In the weeks following the split, Johnston said he needed to mature before becoming a husband but held out hope that he and Palin would reconcile. Bristol Palin said she wants to maintain some kind of relationship with Johnston for the benefit of her son. “I’d love Levi to be a part of his life and I know he will be,” she said. “Every child needs a father.” Palin said she didn’t pay much attention to the intense media coverage that started when her mother was thrust into the national spotlight during the presidential campaign, including Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin impersonation. “It’s unreal,” she said. Palin is but one visible example of a nationwide trend. For the second year in a row, the country’s teen birth rate has increased. Three out of 10 girls in the United States will get pregnant and less than half of those women will earn their high school diploma, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

A: Although I agree with religious conservatives who want to challenge the youth to delay sexual activity for a while, I totally disagree with their message that a condom is a provision for sin. I send my Christian friends to the website below which debunks the whole thing against premarital sex in the Bible. That way they have no excuse not to support comprehensive sex education.