Looks like abstinence education doesn't work, shocker of the week.... Options

[cmac]

so texas leads the nation in teenagers that have had sex, and also has the most abstinence education.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...e.4fec6217.html

This post has been edited by cmac: Jul 14 2008, 04:01 PM

[impala454]

correlate the numbers to illegal immigrant numbers then get back to me mmmk.

[Billy]

correlate the numbers to illegal immigrant numbers then get back to me mmmk.

Yeah because California/Arizona/New Mexico doesn't have the same problem?

[impala454]

Yeah because California/Arizona/New Mexico doesn't have the same problem?

Well, where did they fall on this list? Oh that's right the article conveniently didn't provide the list. Remember, it says the national average is 47.8% and Texas is at 52.9%. Is California "not having a problem" at 51.3%? And Texas has like 75% of our border with Mexico and I would venture to guess has by far the most illegal immigrants if you compare those states.

[Billy]

Well, where did they fall on this list? Oh that's right the article conveniently didn't provide the list. Remember, it says the national average is 47.8% and Texas is at 52.9%. Is California "not having a problem" at 51.3%? And Texas has like 75% of our border with Mexico and I would venture to guess has by far the most illegal immigrants if you compare those states.

And your guess would be by far wrong.

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/peo_est_n...egal-immigrants

California has twice the number of illegal immigrants. However, both states have approximately the same pregnancy rates from data I've read from Google research. That would suggest that there is not a strong correlation between illegal immigrants and teen pregnancy rates.