In an attempt to call a spade a spade the Supreme Pundit has modified the article with strike through and additions in parentheses.
CDC: Many (female children) Didn’t Think They Could Get Pregnant
Survey Focuses on Teens (female children) Who Had Unplanned Babies, Often Didn’t Use Birth Control
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Hansa D. Bhargava, MD
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Jan. 19, 2012 — Teens (female children) who have babies without meaning to often don’t use birth control because they think they can’t get pregnant, according to a CDC survey.
Half the teenage moms (female children) with unplanned pregnancies who responded to the survey said they weren’t using contraceptives when their babies were conceived.
About a third of those who had unprotected sex mistakenly believed they could not get pregnant at the time.
The CDC analysis, which appears in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(MMWR), is among the first to focus on teen moms (female children) who had unplanned pregnancies.
Its findings suggest an urgent need for better sex education and better access to contraception, says study co-researcher and CDC senior researcher Lorrie Gavin, PhD.
Interpretation….
(We must get these children able to have sex without consequences!)
About 1 in 4 Said Partners Nixed Birth Control
The survey included thousands of white, African-American, and Hispanic teen girls (female children), living in 19 states, who gave birth between 2004 and 2008.
Among the findings:
Nearly a fourth (23.6%) of the teens (female children)who did not use birth control said it was because their partners did not want to.
Twenty-two percent of the (female children) said even though they did not set out to have a baby, they would not mind if they got pregnant.
(female children) Teens in five states were asked about their use of specific contraceptives. About 24% used condoms, about 20% used oral contraceptives, and about 5% used highly unreliable methods such as rhythm and early withdrawal.
Hispanic teens (female children) were the most likely to mistakenly believe that they could not get pregnant at the time their babies were conceived, with 42% reporting this, compared to 32% of African-Americans and 27% of whites.
About 1 in 4 white and Hispanic teen moms (female children that gave birth) and 1 in 5 black teen moms (female children that gave birth) said they did not use birth control because their partners did not want to.
Teen Birth (female children that gave birth) Rate Declining, But Still High
While fewer teens (female children)overall are having babies in the United States, the teen birth (female children that gave birth) rate is still among the highest of any developed country. In 2009, close to 400,000 teens (female children that gave birth) in the U.S. gave birth, the CDC says.
Teen mothers (female children that gave birth) are more likely than other teenage girls (female children) to drop out of school and live below the poverty line, and their daughters are more likely to become teen mothers (female children that gave birth) themselves.
It was not clear why the 31% of teen moms (female children that gave birth) who did not use birth control mistakenly thought they could not get pregnant or why 22% said they did not really mind getting pregnant, even though it was not their intent.
“This was beyond the scope of the study, but it is an indication of ambivalence about this issue, which is a big problem in general,” Gavin says, adding that sex education efforts should stress motivating young girls to want to avoid pregnancy.
Lawrence Finer, PhD, of the reproductive health research and policy organization Guttmacher Institute, says it is clear from the survey that misperceptions about fertility are common.
“The risk of becoming pregnant with any one act of unprotected sex is small, so it may be that teen girls (female children that gave birth) who have sex a few times and don’t become pregnant come to believe that they can’t become pregnant,” he says.
Finer says there has been a decline in the number of programs providing comprehensive education about sexuality in recent years (for female children ).
“We are not providing teens (female children) with access to education and the broadest range of contraceptive options,” he says.
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via CDC: Many Teen Moms Didn’t Think They Could Get Pregnant.