I have seen a few of these teenage birthrate-dropping news releases - it may be good news…or not. See the graph below. Let’s discuss a few other data that you may want to see and compare:
Does it correlate with an increase in abortions?
Does it correlate to widespread access to birth control starting in the ’60s?
Are these only unwed mothers? Answer: No, the data includes married mothers. So, with this data, was getting married earlier in life more common in the fifties than in recent times? I think so.
Do you think of teenage births as including 18 and 19-year-olds? Does including them make the peak in the fifties much higher? I looked up data for 2021 - over half of teenage (13-19) births were to 18-19-year-old teens.
Teens have been giving birth for millennia - is this a problem? Isn’t our (US) birthrate too low?
Is the later years of this graph a result of changing sexual norms where many are not having sex until their twenties?
What is the correlation to changing birthrate over all ages of women? Is the fertility rate changing? Testosterone?
Why didn’t they include teens that are 13-14?
What are the demographics of these mothers?
When did sex education start, and is it correlated?
Is it correlated with despair about bringing children into this world?
Do you have some more questions about the data or observations?
Many graphs I see are similar to this one; it is an interesting data visualization that requires much more data to derive conclusions from correctly. The issue is that uneducated people who are not trained in the use of data jump to conclusions that are not in the original data. This is an excellent example of one. Can you draw a single conclusion from this data? Women (wed or unwed) ages 15-19 are having fewer babies over time. Maybe this very narrow conclusion is correct. But be very careful of the people with an ax to grind picking their favorite reason for the decline.
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I have seen a few of these teenage birthrate-dropping news releases - it may be good news…or not. See the graph below. Let’s discuss a few other data that you may want to see and compare:
Does it correlate with an increase in abortions?
Does it correlate to widespread access to birth control starting in the ’60s?
Are these only unwed mothers? Answer: No, the data includes married mothers. So, with this data, was getting married earlier in life more common in the fifties than in recent times? I think so.
Do you think of teenage births as including 18 and 19-year-olds? Does including them make the peak in the fifties much higher? I looked up data for 2021 - over half of teenage (13-19) births were to 18-19-year-old teens.
Teens have been giving birth for millennia - is this a problem? Isn’t our (US) birthrate too low?
Is the later years of this graph a result of changing sexual norms where many are not having sex until their twenties?
What is the correlation to changing birthrate over all ages of women? Is the fertility rate changing? Testosterone?
Why didn’t they include teens that are 13-14?
What are the demographics of these mothers?
When did sex education start, and is it correlated?
Is it correlated with despair about bringing children into this world?
Do you have some more questions about the data or observations?
Many graphs I see are similar to this one; it is an interesting data visualization that requires much more data to derive conclusions from correctly. The issue is that uneducated people who are not trained in the use of data jump to conclusions that are not in the original data. This is an excellent example of one. Can you draw a single conclusion from this data? Women (wed or unwed) ages 15-19 are having fewer babies over time. Maybe this very narrow conclusion is correct. But be very careful of the people with an ax to grind picking their favorite reason for the decline.