Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Marc Siegel made some eyebrow-raising comments lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.
On Thursday, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that the U.S. fertility rate fell to another record low. The agency reported that the number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age declined from 53.8 in 2024 to 53.1 last year. The latest figure represents a continuation of a decades-long decline in fertility rates.
Siegel joined Friday’s edition of America’s Newsroom, where Dana Perino said that while the continuing trend is not surprising, “the numbers might feel a little shocking.”
Just makes us easier to subjugate.
Teen moms are way more likely to drop out of school, which kind of snowballs into lower paying jobs, more financial stress, higher poverty rates, that whole thing. There are also real health risks involved, especially if she’s younger, stuff like preeclampsia and anemia are more common, and sadly maternal mortality is higher too. A lot of teen moms also end up pregnant again within a couple years, and depression and anxiety are pretty common outcomes as well.
For the kid, preterm birth and low birth weight are more likely, and as they grow up there tend to be more developmental and behavioral challenges on average. One of the more striking stats is that daughters of teen moms are significantly more likely to become teen moms themselves, and that cycle is really hard to break.
Dads kind of get left out of the research, but the data that exists shows they face a lot of the same economic and educational setbacks, and they’re less likely to stay involved with the child long term.
Need more teen parents to make vulnerable children for the pedo conservatives.
Let’s just break this down as a little reminder:
- 15: statutory rape
- 16: statutory rape
- 17: statutory rape
- 18: creepy
- 19: creepy
I am a little confused why everyone is forgetting that teens have sex with other teens. >.>
It’s not creepy for an 18 year old to have sex with an 18 year old.
I didn’t forget, but it is old white men hyper about this, and considering how many old white men are creepy around teens, suddenly being interested in them getting pregnant is extremely creepy.
Teens will always have sex, sure, although many fewer are as compared to previous decades. I’m not so worried about them.
Also… do we REALLY want teens getting pregnant?
That is just being racist as countless studies show this is a human race issue not a white men only.
WTAF. 15-19. That is some very weird shit.
We need to go back to a well-funded, high-profile and concerted campaign of calling the right weird.
Because they very much are.
They are the party of the pedo-in-chief. Of Bannon. Of Stephen Miller. Of Peter Thiel. Of Musk. Of Curtis Yarvin. The authors of The Sovereign Individual and The Unhumans.
Well tell them to be more sexy.
“Pedophilia has been trending downward since epstien files were mentioned…”
I get the sentiment, but this is much more likely due to teenagers smartening up about sex with other teenagers.
Remember when they said that sex ed would increase teen pregnancies? And now they’re low enough, because of sex ed, that they have to tell kids how fun it is to fuck without condoms
Its a a big fucking circle jerk
Sooo more life destroying, unplanned underage pregnancies?
They need more poor kids from broken homes to feed their slave pens (prison).
More teens became smart and self aware enough to not get pregnant in so young age by effectively using different types of contraception. And guy says that this is a bad thing. What?
This is the same group that decries teen mothers who are Black as burdens on the system and trying to cheat welfare by having more babies because more babies means a bigger welfare check that they can spend on lobster, fur coats, and Cadillacs.
Sick pro-pedophilia bastard
Nowhere in the US can 15 year olds legally consent to sex. The age of consent is 16, 17, or 18 depending on the state. This moron is literally supporting child rape.
They can consent to other 15 year olds
didnt know that (im not in amerikkka so idk the details of their laws)
“We beat teen pregnancy!” - “Oh no!”
Elaborated: “Oh no! Fewer poverty-locked consumer slaves! Who do we convince breast feeding is unhealthy and peddle formula to? How will we paint immigration as a bad thing if unemployment goes down? What if - heaven forbid - social mobility goes up?”
How do we blackmail people with no children to work shit jobs?
Someone should check that doctor’s hard-drives.
All they gonna find there is this. Nothing really interesting…
I have a female coworker and her daughter is currently eight months pregnant at 14 with a 17-year-old father. She couldn’t be happier. She is also a hardcore republican and a diehard Trump supporter.
Ruin your kids life early that is the republican motto. Trap them in never ending wage slavery.
Yep exactly, it runs in her family. She was pregnant with her first baby at 15 and her husband was in his early 40’s. Her husband is older than her dad by 5 years. She is currently 41 and her husband is 73. She also has a younger sister like 5 years younger and I believe she basically did the same thing being pregnant at 15-16 with a much older man.
My wife has one branch of her family where 4 generations occured in a 60 year period, the 5 generation photos are pretty neat, and also I’m really happy for the last generation which broke the cycle.
Being a teen mom sky rockets the chance your children will become parents as teens
Yep, my best friend had his first child at 17 and now that child is 18 with 2 kids already.
WTF
I don’t like your coworker.
I knew someone who was by her own description baby-crazy as a teen and basically seeked out someone to knock her up. Hormones are wild things sometimes. Her child did not repeat the cycle fortunately
Sounds like she has a sweet trailer.
Actually, no, she lives in an old rundown house that has a bunch of Trump Flags and signs and she lives across the street from a Mexican restaurant and she absolutely hates the Mexicans, but loves eating there every night.
Mentally insane
Damn these (slur) and their delicious food and beautiful decor and lovely music! Damn them! Get out get out get out! And dont come back! (But i would like a refill on my horchata please)
That is almost 1:1 what she says.
I hate them as real things, but thryre amazing jokes.
What the actual fuck
actual fuck
arguably literally yes
💀
The replacement rate is down to 1.56, meaning every couple is having, on average, 1.56 children in the United States. We need two or above to keep the population at the same amount.
There’s actually another way to keep the population up, and it’s great for America economically and culturally, and it makes the world a better place at the same time.
Or maybe we give up on an economic model that requires unending population growth? Since you know, we live on a finite planet?
We have to find a path to degrowth. Stop repeating talking points that imply population growth is our only path forward.
Did you not understand that I was talking about immigration? Which is one of the ways we solve that. All of that.
Besides which we’re actually talking about keeping the population stable. A declining population is bad for everyone economically. Luckily population growth naturally slows down in modernized societies, which is why allowing people to immigrate is good for everyone.
Global population growth is happening. Slowing down, but looks inevitable for at least several more decades. Given that baseline, it is optimal for all countries involved to allow immigration from countries with population growth (reduces strain on government services, adds to the economy with remittances) to countries with lower birth rates (tax revenues support social service budgets, increased entrepreneur rate of immigrants increases job growth, etc.)
Economies can transition to population decline while maintaining standards of living for sure, if handled in a planned way. Some short-term pain during the transition, then fine later. But why go through a combination of short-term pain right now, at the same time as incredible cruelty is required to keep out migrants?
A path to degrowth will be needed globallyin the medium-term future (finite planet), but trying to implement that now at just the US locally isn’t going to help the planet at all.
great for america
Oof. Not the selling point you think it is.
makes the world a better place
Theres your problem.
There’s nothing wrong with doing things that are (legitimately) great for America. I’d love to do things that are great for Russia and Israel too… but it’s unlikely that the leadership in those countries would consider them “great” actions.
Im saying they dont see it as a selling point. Im speaking of a third party’s perspective here. This is a really really basic level of abstraction imusing here, cmon.
Who are the “they” that you are referring to? MAGA? Other countries?
This is incredibly tedious. What the fuck?
