Dabullz
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Message #113262 posted by Dabullz (Info) March 13, 2008 14:45:13 ET
In Reply to: Re: 1 in 4 teen girls has an STD posted by hempity (Info) March 12, 2008 19:09:46 ET
I won't compete against your internet "dumpster diving". It easy to
substantiate anything via google if you try hard enough.
In the last decade, 500,000,000 have been lost to abortions. A small
percentage of those occurred within a monogamous marriage. The rest was
simply another form of birth control.
25,000,000 folks have died of AIDS since '81. Surely the numbers can be
twisted any way you want regarding how they contracted the disease,
however, anyone can agree a majority of those folks got it through illicit sex.
There are 12,000,000 AIDS orphans in Africa alone.
Approximately 1,000,000 died from syphilis in the last decade
Sex slavery - approximately 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 girls, most under the age
of 18, are trafficked yearly.
Single parents - surely some are due to divorce, but most are not. Here are
some of the statistics that document the immense human suffering resulting
in out of wedlock births and the generally fatherlessness that results:
There are just the statistics in the US:
Children growing up in single-parent households are at a significantly
increased risk for drug abuse as teenagers. --Source: Denton, Rhonda E. and
Charlene M. Kampfe. "The relationship Between Family Variables and
Adolescent Substance Abuse: A literature Review." Adolescence 114 (1994):
475-495.
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Children who live apart from their fathers are 4.3 times more likely to smoke
cigarettes as teenagers than children growing up with their fathers in the
home. --Source: Stanton, Warren R., Tian P.S. Oci and Phil A. Silva.
"Sociodemographic characteristics of Adolescent Smokers." The International
Journal of the Addictions 7 (1994): 913-925.
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Children in single-parent families are two to three times as likely as children
in two-parent families to have emotional and behavioral problems. --Source:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health
Statistics."National Health Interview Survey." Hyattsville, MD, 1988.
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Three out of four teenage suicides occur in households where a parent has
been absent. --Source: Elshtain, Jean Bethke."Family Matters: The Plight of
America's Children." The Christian Century (July 1993): 14-21.
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In studies involving over 25,000 children using nationally representative data
sets, children who lived with only one parent had lower grade point averages,
lower college aspirations, poor attendance records, and higher drop out rates
than students who lived with both parents. --Source: McLanahan, Sara and
Gary Sandefur. Growing up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
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Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of school. --Source: U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health
Statistics. Survey on Child Health. Washington, DC; GPO, 1993.
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School children from divorced families are absent more, and more anxious,
hostile, and withdrawn, and are less popular with their peers than those from
intact families. --Source: One-Parent Families and Their Children: The
School's Most Significant Minority. The Consortium for the Study of School
Needs of Children from One-Parent Families. National Association of
elementary School Principals and the Institute for Development of Educational
Activities, a division of the Charles f. Kettering Foundation. Arlington, VA
1980.
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Children in single parent families are more likely to be in trouble with the law
than their peers who grow up with two parents. --Source: U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. National
Health Interview Survey. Hyattsville, MD, 1988.
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Adolescent females between the ages of 15 and 19 years reared in homes
without fathers are significantly more likely to engage in premarital sex than
adolescent females reared in homes with both a mother and a father. --
Source: Billy, John O. G., Karin L. Brewster and William R. Grady. "Contextual
Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women." Journal of Marriage and
Family 56(1994): 381-404.
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A white teenage girl from an advantaged background is five times more likely
to become a teen mother if she grows up in a single-mother household than
if she grows up in a household with both biological parents. --Source:
Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe. "Facing the Challenges of Fragmented Families."
The Philanthropy Roundtable 9.1 (1995
The world would be PROFOUNDLY better place if sex happened in
monogamous marriages only.
DB
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