April 8, 2008
Teen Births Rose In 2006
Rate Of Teenage Births Leaps 3 Percent; Births To Single Moms Hit Historic Highs
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Teen childbirths rose by 3 percent in 2006, to about 42 births for every 1,000 females between the ages of 15 and 19.
That was up from 40.5 births per 1,000 in 2005, but still well below the 62 births per 1,000 recorded in 1991, when teen birth rates began their decade-plus decline.
About 20,000 more births were recorded among teens in the U.S. in 2006 than the previous year, with a 5 percent increase seen among African American teens, a 3 percent increase among non-Hispanic whites, and a 2 percent increase among Hispanics.
While it is too early to say if the rise represents the beginning of a trend, Stephanie J. Ventura, who heads the NCHS reproductive statistics branch, says it is cause for concern.
"This could continue or it could reverse, but it is not the direction we want to see," she tells WebMD.
New Baby Boom?
Overall, the birth rate increased by 3 percent to 4.26 million between 2005 and 2006, the largest single-year increase since 1989 and the largest total number of births since 1961, which was one of the last years of the baby boom.
Birth rates rose by 4 percent among women between the ages of 20 and 24, to 105 births per 1,000 and by 3 percent among those aged 40 to 44, to 9.4 births per 1,000.
An increase in the total fertility rate, which represents an estimate of the number of children a woman will have over her reproductive life, may be one explanation for the increase in overall births, Ventura suggests.
She says the rise represents a reversal in a trend, as an increasing number of families are made up of more than one or two children.
So when it comes to family planning, three may be the new two.
"I've heard people say that," she says. "All we can say is that the fertility rate is higher than it has been."
Record Cesarean Deliveries, Unmarried Moms
In 2006, nearly one in three babies in the U.S. was delivered by cesarean section.
The C-section rate rose by 3 percent to 31.1 percent - more than twice the target rate government health officials have called for among low-risk women by 2010.
C-sections were relatively rare in the U.S. before 1970, when just 5 percent of babies were delivered surgically.
By the mid-1980s, nearly one in four babies born in the U.S. was delivered by cesarean section. That number dipped slightly through the 1990s, but has been climbing steadily ever since.
The increase in births among unmarried women is definitely a trend, Ventura says. Births among this group hit historic highs in 2006.
The 1.6 million births among unmarried women represents an 8 percent increase over 2005 and is 20 percent higher than the recent low point for births in the group seen in 2002.
"Most of this increase is in women in their 20s," Ventura says. "This definitely suggests a change in attitudes about the issue."
Preterm Deliveries Rising
The preterm birth rate rose slightly in 2006, to 12.8 percent from 12.7 percent the previous year, and low-birth weight deliveries rose from 8.2 percent to 8.3 percent.
Preterm births and low-birth rate deliveries have risen by 21 percent and 19 percent, respectively, since 1990, with late preterm births of between 34 and 36 weeks gestation rising by 25 percent, the NCHS's Joyce A. Martin, MPH, tells WebMD.
Though the reasons for this are not completely clear, Martin says one factor appears to be an increased willingness among health care providers to induce labor early.
The rate of infant deaths remained at a relatively stable 6.9 per 1,000 live births between 2004 and 2005, the last year for which mortality data have been analyzed.
African-American newborns continued to be more than twice as likely as white and Hispanic infants to die in the first year of life.
More than half of all infant deaths in 2005 were from birth defects, premature delivery, sudden infant death syndrome, and complications at delivery.
Life Expectancy Still Rising
There were 2.44 million deaths in the United States in 2005, an increase of about 50,000 deaths over 2004.
Life expectancy continued to increase to a record high of 77.9 years in 2005, or 0.1 year more than the previous year.
The life expectancy for a white female born in 2005 is now 80.8 years, compared to 75.7 years for a white male, 76.5 years for a black female, and 69.6 years for a black male.
By Salynn Boyles
Reviewed by Louise Chang
©2005-2008 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.
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See all 52 CommentsPeople cannot raise other peoples children, no matter what some say. The parents need to teach their children because they are the ones responsible. Just because someone works is not an excuse. People are ignoring their children in hopes others are watching them. But the villagers do not want to be sued for something the parents should be doing along. Teaching their kids right from wrong, respect, control and so on.
one more thing that bush and his neo con criminals
and
evangeical clowns, have screwed up
if you like all this garbage vote for McBushCain
[Posted by watchr4hm at 02:00 PM : Apr 08, 2008]
what would that be?
[Posted by Benst1 at 03:03 PM : Apr 08, 2008]
is this based on personal experience, gut feel, or statistical reality?
[Posted by watchr4hm at 02:00 PM : Apr 08, 2008]
what would that be?
A pledge in their integrity towards others for their future union with a spouse and a commitment for an right just clean way of living! You probably do not understand these sentences because of the way you have lived an immoral life.
[Posted by God_vs_Self_ at 04:27 PM : Apr 08, 2008]
could be. is a moral life one where you pass judgement on those you do not know?
[Posted by God_vs_Self_ at 04:27 PM : Apr 08, 2008]
could be. is a moral life one where you pass judgement on those you do not know?
Posted by bobnjersey at 04:56 PM : Apr 08, 2008
Only if its your response to God?
(Posted by bobnjersey at 04:56 PM : Apr 08, 2008)
Only if its your response to God?]
[Posted by God_vs_Self_ at 05:06 PM : Apr 08, 2008]
if only this made any sense ... or maybe this is also because of the way i may have lived an immoral life.
or maybe it''s just a dodge from someone who is as flawed as those he judges.
Posted by bobnjersey at 05:13 PM : Apr 08, 2008
Either way you still have to answer to God.
Again its your response to him.
The article conflates teen pregnancy with unmarried pregnancy, giving the impression that they are one and the same even though they admit that most of the increase in unmarried pregnancy is among women in their twenties.
The point is that getting married and having children when you are 18 or 19 is considered evil in our society. The government wants to propagandize and stigmatize young women who desire families.
Why would that be? The government sees family as the last bastion of competition against its omnipotence over us. War on drugs, war on terrorism, war on the family. The government is at war with us.
e is religion "immoral" acts...in the name of g*d. And the church is paying restitution...lets not forget all those children rapped in the name of g*d!
Posted by zoe2006 at 05:19 PM : Apr 08, 2008
Remember its not I that you have to answer to?
It is God waiting for your response to him remember he loves you.
Posted by random_radar at 05:21 PM : Apr 08, 2008
A teen who was not taught to wait until marriage. If she only waited for a man wanting love and commitment she would not be left with no solution to her bundle of joy. It is emotionally crippling to teens not to wait and they get pregnant then someone tries to dictate to them to just kill the baby? Its the solution to all your problems they say. Then the unwed mother kills the baby and gets a double whammy of guilt that she took a life. Where are the people who gave her the wrong advice to help her emotionally? They are out getting into problems as well!
Again its your response to him.]
[Posted by God-vs-Self_ at 05:18 PM : Apr 08, 2008]
oh ... i get it ... you''re a ''bot'' ... an automatron ... everything has the same answer ... an ''answer to god''. but which god?
Posted by bobnjersey at 05:33 PM : Apr 08, 2008
We will respond the same way to God convicting us of the wrong we do. Its called your conscious.
No. g*d doesn''''t pay the bills! If "it" did, then I would believe it...just a bunch of idiocy and sheep. Darwin rules!
Posted by zoe2006 at 05:33 PM : Apr 08, 2008
God paid your sin debt! Jesus died for you.
Please help me I am a baby thrown into the garbage can. I am trying to find comfort here but all the babies in here with me are dead. I crawl crying and cannot cuddle in this cold can with no one. My mommy did not want me and now another dead baby has just been thrown on me. Please somebody love me by saving me before it%u2019s to late.
This was a live telecast!
Notice they did not include the abortion murdered deaths at 5000 a day?
Of course this is a recipe for disaster.
A lot of these babies grow up to be thugs/criminals.
Don''t we have enough unwanted babies? Isn''t the world''s population increasing fast enough?
Don''''t we have enough unwanted babies? Isn''''t the world''''s population increasing fast enough?
Posted by Keithle1"
Yep, that is eactly what the religious reich want- EVERY SINLGE fetus to live, no birth control, and then we can rapidly head into a situation where the population DOUBLES by 2050 to 600 million. Imagine where all those excess people would live, work, drive, pollute, eat, heat, light with already dwindling resources!
It would become hel1 on earth, like Logans Run or Soylent Green where everyone lives in concrete high rises and eats processed pellets for food, breathes artificial air.
"Notice they did not include the abortion murdered deaths at 5000 a day?
Posted by Providence_N (Rick Miesse, singinrick, TruthWord08)
I didn''t notice, but I feel it should be 10,000 aborted a day and a 10 year moratorium on births till we get the overpopulation UNDER CONTROL and back to the levels it was in the 50''s
I would happily pay for an abortion, I should look up a clinic that accepts donations to pay for one that someone cant afford.
If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants, according to new projections developed by the Pew Research Center.
Of the 117 million people added to the population during this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their U.S.-born children or grandchildren.
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Now if you add 5,000 a day by outlawing abortion;
438 million in 2050 +1,825,000 /Yr 2010 thru 2050 =73,000,000 added persons, PLUS the babies those in turn would have that otherwise would never have been born. Figuring half are females= roughly 36,000,000 rounded out. The ones born in 2010 would be having babies around 2030 and the first crop of that bunch would having babies of their own by 2050. At the very least just going by ONE child per female and not including their babies in turn- that 36 million becomes 72.5 million ADDED to the projected
438 million comes to at least 510.5 million.
Till there are NONE in foster care, ABORT OR ADOPT, dont breed!
When you add in the subsequent babies I left out there, and/or you increase the "one" to TWO for some of the women the number WOULD BE around 600 million at least, double what it is now.
Where the Hel1 do you think all those people are going to live, work, and where DOUBLE the food, water, electric, waste disposal, landfill space and all the rest is going to COME FROM Rick?
We already have shortages of everything from clean water to electric, oil, land, farmland being built over for condos and malls and the list goes on.
Maybe YOU would like a world as depicted in "Logans Run" where you can only live to age 21 and are executed to make room for more BABIES, or "Soylent Green" but most people WOULDNT- it would be hel1 on earth.
This was a live telecast!
Posted by DeadexcessBaby
BURN BABY BURN!!! Here, let me get those forceps in a little higher, there we go! [CRUNNNNNCH] your hips just squashed ooops!
NEXT!
May God show you his Grace.
If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants, according to new projections developed by the Pew Research Center.
Of the 117 million people added to the population during this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their U.S.-born children or grandchildren.
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Now if you add 5,000 a day by outlawing abortion;
438 million in 2050 +1,825,000 /Yr 2010 thru 2050 =73,000,000 added persons, PLUS the babies those in turn would have that otherwise would never have been born. Figuring half are females= roughly 36,000,000 rounded out. The ones born in 2010 would be having babies around 2030 and the first crop of that bunch would having babies of their own by 2050. At the very least just going by ONE child per female and not including their babies in turn- that 36 million becomes 72.5 million ADDED to the projected
438 million comes to at least 510.5 million.
Till there are NONE in foster care, ABORT OR ADOPT, dont breed!
When you add in the subsequent babies I left out there, and/or you increase the "one" to TWO for some of the women the number WOULD BE around 600 million at least, double what it is now.
Where the Hel1 do you think all those people are going to live, work, and where DOUBLE the food, water, electric, waste disposal, landfill space and all the rest is going to COME FROM Rick?
We already have shortages of everything from clean water to electric, oil, land, farmland being built over for condos and malls and the list goes on.
Maybe YOU would like a world as depicted in "Logans Run" where you can only live to age 21 and are executed to make room for more BABIES, or "Soylent Green" but most people WOULDNT- it would be hel1 on earth.
THATS my reponse Dead5000Baby now roll over and die already cause if you can type in here you aint.
Posted by Dead5000Baby (Rick Miesse, singinrick, TruthWord08)
...the religious reich and rabid anti abortion whackos who dont put their money and homes where their big mouthes are- attacks them and FORCES them to feel guilt they should not have for making a PERSONAL decision not to expend THEIR BODIES in raising a mass of tissue they DONT WANT.
Abortion is a moral right%u2014which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her body?
%u2014 Ayn Rand
www.abortionisprolife.com/essays.htm
atheism2.freeforums.org
youtube.com/user/dersheeple
[NOT QUITE the 5000 a day RICK claimed, more like 3400]
It is estimated that more than one in every three American women will have an abortion by the time they reach 45. Underlying these statistics is the reality that women who seek abortions do not constitute any one particular %u201Ctype.%u201D
When are most abortions performed?
The vast majority of abortions in the United States -- approximately 88% of them -- take place during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Abortions that take place after 21 weeks of pregnancy, moreover, account for only 1.2% of the total.
What is %u201Cpartial birth%u201D abortion?
%u201CPartial birth%u201D abortion is a term that has been developed and exploited by the anti-choice community to describe abortions that take place after 21 weeks of pregnancy. As noted above, third trimester abortions are extremely rare and constitute just over 1% of abortions performed annually in the United States. Despite the claims of anti-choice community, third trimester abortions are generally limited to cases of severe fetal anomalies or situations in which the health or life of the pregnant woman is severely threatened.
Sounds like a good concept for lawyers and the constitution to get on board and fight this all the way to the supreme court! Do you think these two will win?
This reminds me of a H-T-L-E-R movie were all the Jews were put to death by choice! I think we referred to it as an atrocity,
Posted by rf35
CLAP CLAP CLAP, well said! I know a movie I think called "the human body" shown in theaters in the late 70''s showed how much resources a person uses in their lifetime, they showed a warehouse with food, gallon jugs of water, barrels of oil etc etc stacked up, it was a massive amount of raw materials.
The Hudson Valley Film Commission April 10 will screen the world premiere of ''Human Footprint,'' a National Geographic documentary that examines how much the average American consumes in a lifetime.
If you%u2019ve decided to have an abortion make sure you%u2019ve selected a good health care center or a qualified, licensed practitioner. Contact the National Abortion Federation%u2019s toll-free hotline, 1-800-772-9100, for a referral. Generally speaking, if a clinic has not been certified by the National Abortion Federation there%u2019s probably a good reason.
The average American adult eats over 525 pounds of food each year of his life.
Over 70 years, that person will eat:
35 turkeys
23 hogs
14 head of cattle 2 calves
12 sheep
880 chickens
770 pounds of fish.
The average person will eat over 10,000 bars of chocolate, shed 121 pints of tears and have s3x more than 4,200 times, a television documentary will claim tomorrow.
It also looks at the effect each human being has on the planet during the 2,475,576,000 seconds that each of us will, on average, have on Earth
Mr Watts and his team spent the next two years compiling hundreds of statistics and then came up with ways of visualising them, including a Hansel and Gretel house built with 10,000 bars of chocolate and more than 15,000 pints of "milk" (water and powder paint) left on a doorstep.
He said: "It''s about wondering what it would look like if all the clothes, washing machines and toilet paper you ever used were piled up outside your front door. Or if you were to lay out all the bread you will ever eat or cups of tea you will drink."
He said the statistic that surprised him the most was that each person smokes, on average, 77,000 cigarettes.
Now the anti abortion crowd can begin to get an idea how much of an impact EVERY unwanted fetus would have on this planet.
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