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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; teen pregnancy</title>
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		<title>Is abstinence education working?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/25/is-abstinence-education-working/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Charlie Butts Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America (CWA) says the truth is that teen birth rates have been dropping for several years now, and the stats from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are good news. &#8220;[Teen birth rates] dropped nine percent. This is about the third year in a row when these have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach girls to say “no” &#8211; British MP</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/10/teach-girls-to-say-%e2%80%9cno%e2%80%9d-british-mp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 18:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wowsers. Some people have totally lost their minds, particularly regarding the tidbit in the very last paragraph. by Carolyn Moynihan British secondary schools are required by law to teach the biological facts of human reproduction in science lessons, but students themselves often say the instruction given is too biological. The facts also speak for themselves: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pregnancy trap</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/21/the-pregnancy-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Teen girls keep having children, writes high school teacher Gerry Garibaldi, and we keep encouraging them Teen pregnancy is an &#8220;intractable problem,&#8221; says Gerry Garibaldi, that urban teachers &#8220;cannot spend or even teach [their] way out of.&#8221; Photo: Corbis IN MY SHORT time as a teacher in Connecticut, I have muddled through President Bush&#8217;s No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drop in pregnancies &#8211; abstinence&#8230;or abortions?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/10/drop-in-pregnancies-abstinence-or-abortions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/10/drop-in-pregnancies-abstinence-or-abortions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knows? by  Becky Yeh A new report shows that teen pregnancies in California have hit a record low &#8212; and the cause is up for debate. A report released by the California Department of Public Health indicates that the birth rate for teenagers in the state decreased to approximately 32 births for every 1,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teenage birth control and its unfortunate consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/10/teenage-birth-control-and-its-unfortunate-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/02/10/teenage-birth-control-and-its-unfortunate-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like a logical conclusion they should have come to in advance. by Carolyn Moynihan A decade ago public health experts and frontline health professionals convinced the UK government that easy (free, over the counter) access to the morning after pill would bring down the country’s record rates of teenage pregnancy. It hasn’t, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you hear us now?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/04/can-you-hear-us-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/04/can-you-hear-us-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like it. Way to go. by Melinda Tankard Reist When Melinda Tankard Reist’s latest book, Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls, was published last year, a reviewer described it as a “collective shout against the pornification of culture”. “I liked the phrase so much I decided to give it to a new grassroots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen pregnancy: It’s the attitude, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/teen-pregnancy-it%e2%80%99s-the-attitude-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/teen-pregnancy-it%e2%80%99s-the-attitude-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thought of kids having kids is really disturbing to me. I had my first child when I was 25, and I can say, it&#8217;s serious business. I can&#8217;t imagine doing it while trying to go to high school or even college. And who is really going to be raising these children anyhow? My guess is, the grandmothers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ll never end our teenage pregnancy epidemic until we admit what&#8217;s REALLY causing it</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/well-never-end-our-teenage-pregnancy-epidemic-until-we-admit-whats-really-causing-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/10/well-never-end-our-teenage-pregnancy-epidemic-until-we-admit-whats-really-causing-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex ed programs aren&#8217;t working. The solution: keep having them! By Professor Brenda Almond After 13 years in power, a sense of chronic disappointment hangs over the Labour administration. Yesterday, another of the Government’s shameful failures was exposed: the bankruptcy of its policy to tackle Britain’s awful record as western Europe’s teenage pregnancy capital. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too much, too soon</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/03/too-much-too-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/03/too-much-too-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way to break it down. This is what they wanted to do. This is what they did. Thanks a lot. I miss the 50&#8242;s (had I lived during them). by Joanna Bogle As possibly one of its last acts as government, British Labour bids to make sex education compulsory. Sex education. The very words strike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen pregnancies go up &#8211; who&#8217;s to blame?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/teen-pregnancies-go-up-whos-to-blame/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/03/teen-pregnancies-go-up-whos-to-blame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My money is on the horrible movies and tv shows geered toward teens. Just a preview for an American Pie movie was enough to make me want to retch. Charlie Butts &#8211; OneNewsNow - Teen pregnancies were up three percent in 2006, which is the latest reporting period available. Proponents of comprehensive sex education are [...]]]></description>
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