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http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/06/stepp.black.teens/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

All teenage pregnancy's have dropped in the last 20 years, but much more so amongst young black teenagers.

Black teenageres value relationships over sex.

Overall, the article is a huge slew of "well duh" facts, but facts that are ignored in the media, or

even worse, deliberately contradicted in the media for the purposes of selling shit.

What the hell was this doing in GD? It would have made a decent debate on how the media slants things in PR! No wonder why it didn't get attention. Move this thing.

its different in different countries ~ over here it's more geographical and ever since the government introduced the Baby Bonus there has been a vast increase in pregnant girls under the age of 20

in recent years the government has had to place restrictions on the bonus because teenage pregnancy was getting out of hand

there were stories floating around of young girls using or giving the money to the young dads for drug addiction and then dumping the babies on to their parents

My concern about young black people, males in particular, is how for the appropriate age group there are less young men attending universities than there are in prison. I know no country locks folks up on the scale of the US, but the stats for young black males are mind-blowing. I mean, I knew there are a lot of young black men in prison in the US, but it took an episode of the panel show QI for me to realise the extent of the problem. Something like 1 in 9 for a certain age range. That's just crazy. Almost as crazy as the borderline modern day slavery that sees so many items made by inmates for a pittance per hour with solitary confinement as the only other option. Obviously this isn't news to most, I'm sure, but it was to me. It's such a handy way to compete with countries offering cheaper labour than the US. And what are the stats for young black men in the military, who'll use equipment made by all those incarcerated fellow young black men, oftentimes giving their lives in faraway lands? Got a well thought-out system going there, from start to finish.

It is sick and twisted. This thread really does need to be moved into P & R though.

I just wish these young folks fully understood at 14 what quick sand lays up ahead in their lives. That basically they were being set up to die one way or the other. The media in America does not cover things like the work done by inmates. No one breaks it down, how much it cost to house them and what they do as work and how much is profited from that.

I also have no clue how many are in jail on marijuana related charges. That alone is a mess.