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[IndyJones]

But there's zero proof of that happening, just your personal experience. My personal experience is quite different, but it's no more reasonable for me to expand that out to the entire country.

You don't seem to see how this works. Can you provide any proof of what you're asserting, or just personal experience?

 

[KJbushway]

I see examples all around. I live in the south, where you live it could be far different. But my and your generations are far apart. young people these days are about doing things fast. We take what we think is love to seriously.
My generation, which doesn't answer questions from the Census Bereau.
And things on TV don't help our mindset.

Saying theres Zero proof makes what you say not much better than mine. Once again I am saying engaged, not married.
Let me get some proof. It could be my regional generation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32884806/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

Apparently its my regional generation. And why I see so many examples.

Every article I bring up shows higher teen pregnancy rates in the south. So I wasn't intentionaly trying to Bullshit, but my expirences turned out to be the fact of life down here.

 

[IndyJones]

But my and your generations are far apart.

Yes. They must be.

Of course, I'm in my 20's so I'm not even sure we'd be considered to be part of different generations.


Still, you can't take your personal experienced and extrapolate out to the whole country. This is a simple point that you don't seem to get, and I'm not sure why.

Saying theres Zero proof makes what you say not much better than mine.

No, saying that makes my argument infinitely better than yours. It means I'm not assuming 320 million people are acting a certain way just because some people around me are acting that way.

Let me get some proof. It could be my regional generation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32884806/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

That doesn't show what you seem to think it shows.

I've been arguing that your regional experiences can't be used to judge how the whole country is acting, and that article specifically states that your region is different from the rest of the country. That article is actually showing that your experiences aren't the norm.

 

[KJbushway]

Well I guess not to much of a gap, I am a year away from my 20s.
But I did change it, I provided proof that explains why I see more of it, becuase while teen pregnancies have leveled off elsewhere, they stay high in the bible states.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

They've always been high in the bible states. How's that a show on MTV's fault? It would be happening either way.

 

[KJbushway]

Look at the title of the new season.
Against all odds they survive. So basically the message is a fairy tale ending.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

My point is they got pregnant before at the same or greater rates. Therefore, MTV isn't the cause of teenage pregnancy. Stupidity and horniness are the causes, MTV just airs some of their stories on TV.

 

[KJbushway]

Yes, but there is some girls out there who have gotten pregnant just to get on that show to become famous. Its not totally impossible. Look at the pregancy pact.

 

[KJbushway]

What have I been saying all along. What has happened this past week proves what I have been saying. That girl got into the fight. The other admits to know that girls get pregnant just to get on the show, and that when they don't they are disappointed.
If MTV wanted to do as they claim which is to show the hardship of teen pregnancy, they could have stuck with their True Life episode on it, but it brings in money and thats whats important to them. True Life doesn't pay $70,000 an episode.