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Stigmatizing some people’s fertility by calling it “teen birth” and arguing it ruins communities and people’s lives (which it clearly doesn’t) has unsurprisingly been associated with big changes. But those changes were also already underway! Saying all of that is a “good” thing is a real choice.
That's wrong, it's well understood. The confusion occurs when people think "teen births" are a thing (because of conservative propaganda). Trrn births are not a thing. They are just women, and they're having babies at older ages than in the past. familyinequality.wordpress.com/2023/06/03/p...
Please stop talking about teen birthsfamilyinequality.wordpress.com Teen births are a myth. They are not a social phenomenon. They are just births to women in their teenage years.
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It is so deeply inhumane to treat period age-specific fertility rates as their own outcome with a tacit moral valance.