Sex infections still growing in U.S., says CDC

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Now the blame must be re-focused to Obama. Where is Danno?

Nice try Professor but ....I have always lifted Obama up in the good example he sets in this regard.

Obama mirrors my social view in that he is married and raising a family.... this is exactly the lesson we should highlight.

If more Blacks (as well as while) Followed the Presidents example, these stats would be a whole lot different.

His politics are another matter.

Didn't like the joke hmm??

Here:

Yes, Danno, I agree with you completely.

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what? puerto ricans are bringing chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis to the States? wrong, just wrong.

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Teen Birth Rates Higher in Bible Belt

(Sept. 16) -- U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests. The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal interpretation of the Bible, for instance) may frown upon contraception, researchers say. If that same culture isn't successfully discouraging teen sex, the pregnancy and birth rates rise.

Scientists aren't sure why religiously conservative states tend to have higher teen birth rates. "We conjecture that religious communities in the U.S. are more successful in discouraging the use of contraception among their teenagers than they are in discouraging sexual intercourse itself," researcher Joseph Strayhorn said.

States With Highest Teen Birth Rates:

Mississippi

New Mexico

Texas

Arkansas

Arizona

Oklahoma

Nevada

Tennessee

Kentucky

Georgia

Most Conservatively Religious States:

Mississippi

Alabama

South Carolina

Tennessee

Louisiana

Utah

Arkansas

North Carolina

Kentucky

Oklahoma

Source: livescience.com

Mississippi topped the list for conservative religious beliefs and teen birth rates, according to the study results, which will be detailed in a forthcoming issue of the journal Reproductive Health.

However, the results don't say anything about cause and effect, though study researcher Joseph Strayhorn of Drexel University College of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh offers a speculation of the most probable explanation: "We conjecture that religious communities in the U.S. are more successful in discouraging the use of contraception among their teenagers than they are in discouraging sexual intercourse itself."

The study comes with other significant caveats, too: The same link might not be found for other types of religious beliefs that are perhaps more liberal, researchers say. And while the study reveals information about states as a whole, it doesn't shed light on whether an individual teen who is more religious will also be more likely to have a child.

"You can't talk about individuals, because you don't know what's producing the [teen birth] rate," said Amy Adamczyk, a sociologist at the City University of New York, who was not involved in the current study. "Are there just a couple of really precocious religious teenagers who are running around and getting pregnant and having all of these babies, but that's not the norm?"

Strayhorn agrees and says the study aimed to look at communities (or states) as a whole. "It is possible that an anti-contraception attitude could be caused by religious cultures and that could exert its effect mainly on the non-religious individuals in the culture," Strayhorn told LiveScience. But, he added, "We don't know."

http://news.aol.com/article/teen-birth-rat...ble-belt/674301

Wow, you went a long mile to avoid speaking the obvious.... Where Blacks cluster, you will find these same results.

Blacks tend to be more religious and STD's.

Why do you speak of Blacks in code-words?

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Blacks tend to be more STDs??

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Blacks tend to be more STDs??

Danno believes there's a correlation between skin color and behavior...and he's got the stats to prove it.

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Or baggy pants?

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Or baggy pants?

I wonder what Danno's waist size is?

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Other then the fact that african americans are not stds, its kind of hard to argue against those statistics. (Though it has more to do with socio-economic background then colour)

Edited November 16, 2009 by Sousuke

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Other then the fact that african americans are not stds, its kind of hard to argue against those statistics. (Though it has more to do with socio-economic background then colour)

I agree. However, I doubt that Danno even knows the difference since he often makes references to skin color and statistics.

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Other then the fact that african americans are not stds, its kind of hard to argue against those statistics. (Though it has more to do with socio-economic background then colour)

Exactly. And nobody refutes the obvious regarding the statistics, save for those fixated on the skin color part for some odd reason.

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Blacks tend to be more STDs??

Danno believes there's a correlation between skin color and behavior...and he's got the stats to prove it.

"skin color"?? Is that all a Black person is to you... just someone with darker skin?

You cited parts of the country which have the highest concentration of Blacks ...and you pretend it has no implication.

Tsk tsk tsk

If you are going to be critical of Blacks at least come out and say it- "Blacks like religion and sex"

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Blacks tend to be more STDs??

Danno believes there's a correlation between skin color and behavior...and he's got the stats to prove it.

"skin color"?? Is that all a Black person is to you... just someone with darker skin?

You cited parts of the country which have the highest concentration of Blacks ...and you pretend it has no implication.

Tsk tsk tsk

If you are going to be critical of Blacks at least come out and say it- "Blacks like religion and sex"

Well yeah Danno... what other thing is a black person other than a human being with more melanin content in their melanocytes than, say... a white person?

Care to share your perspective??

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Typical moronic skin color argument.

Danno is not talking about race but about demographics and culture.

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Obama mirrors my social view in that he is married and raising a family.... this is exactly the lesson we should highlight.

If more Blacks (as well as while) Followed the Presidents example, these stats would be a whole lot different.

I am sure you have heard of the 'they are just being white' rhetoric.

Contrary to popular left wing VJ belief, nobody here has a problem with normal minorities. For example, the president and his family.

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Danno - if you want, I'll post some statistics on Whites and behavior and then you can decipher it through your magic pseudo-scientific lens to tell us what it all means.