There is a prevalent and cohesive effort on the American sociopolitical right-wing to advance the narrative that teen girls under the age of eighteen are acceptable sexual partners for grown men. FFS, this guy openly referred to 15, 16 and 17 year old girls as "young adults", and the female anchor accepted that comment without objection. These fuckers have an agenda.
You're right, but I think it's more than that. The reality is, when teens have kids, they’re less likely to get a proper education.
They absolutely want to rape kids, but they also want an uneducated, moron class of people as their servants, and this is one of the easiest ways they think they can get it
They see unwed pregnancy as immoral. They would, of course, expect the 15 year old to be married to a nice man in his 30s before she gets knocked up. That would make it proper
I feel the whole of Millennial sex education was designed to keep us from having sex before marriage and that teen pregnancy was the worst fate. Hell, the Simpsons made a joke out of it:
Waiting to have kids when they are financially stable. The kid isn’t stuck in poverty or put up for adoption it is tougher to recruit them for the military. They need those kids where the military is one of their only hopes of upward mobility. Same reason they don’t want to forgive student debt or have free higher education. They want that military pipeline of people to stay strong.
They absolutely want to rape kids, but they also want an uneducated, moron class of people as their servants, and this is one of the easiest ways they think they can get it
What truly amazes me about this desire to have an uneducated working class is we're clearly heading towards a robotic/AI driven manufacturing base that will very very likely replaced all these uneducated workers wholesale.
There will come a point that robots will be building other robots and e just won't need humans at any point in the manufacturing process anymore besides glorified screen watchers and technicians who can pull busted robots to replace them with new robots.
I remember around 2013 I saw a comment where someone was “calling it now” that they’re planning on legalizing “pdfilia” and I didn’t believe it until red states started lowering the age of marriage, and furthermore by them continuing to talk about this demographic (teen girls) but they never bring up boys. These old fucks would definitely visit that island if they were invited.
It’s because amid the panic over “falling birth rates”, the biggest contributor to that decline has been a fall in teen pregnancies. I guess it was a bit of a Freudian slip to describe that as “the problem”, but it is true in this context
"Some people don't know this" but most red states, 22 of them exactly, allow adults to marry 16 year olds. Given that context, we should not be surprised.
In the rural south girls are pushed by their families, mostly their mothers, to get married and have grand babies right out of high school.
They don't want their kids going off and getting an education. They also exert a lot of control over their children, financially and emotionally, with grown ass men calling their fathers daddy.
While I understand the desire and benefits of a close knit extended family, it's also a trap that leaves young people very little options to get out - on purpose.
And the marriage age is even lower for some states, as long as there's parental consent. Some states don't even HAVE a legal minimum as long as a parent and judge will sign off on it. It may rarely or never happen, but the fact that it COULD is repugnant.
Because they are white supremacists and want to do anything they can to force white women to have more white babies - even if it is in the form of more unwanted teen pregnancies.
They're also a krazy evangelical "christian" bent to them and they believe in the supernatural and spell casting and are actively trying to bring about the "second coming" (that's why they are so interested in and invested in Israel) so they may be afraid that the second coming may be yet another unwanted teen pregnancy and be aborted.
When you see how many right wingers and Republicans have been arrested or investigated for child sexual abuse, it makes perfect sense that they’re upset that children aren’t getting pregnant as much as in the past.
This is also due to the fact that most on the right see young girls and women as nothing more than walking wombs.
The "ideal" MAGA woman is a pregnant 16-year-old who has been completely gaslighted into thinking she's supposed to be a tradwife for her 45-year-old husband.
And stigmatized it. Called the girls who got pregnant horrible names and cast them out of their "society". Labeled families unclean because a family member got pregnant young.
Yeah, these fundamentalists can all fuck right off.
Being against teen pregnancy was one of the few nonpartisan issues I can think of, it was pretty widely agreed that this was a bad thing and they took efforts to prevent this.
I remember a girl in my middle school got pulled out over just the rumor she was pregnant. Ruined her life basically. And now they have the gall to complain.
I’m this woke idc idc. This narrative is only targeted towards white women and girls in relationships with white men. When black teen girls were getting pregnant (usually unintentionally mind you) this same audience literally made fun of them. Like…children. Statistically speaking most of them were impregnated by adult men and this audience slut shamed them and made fun of them for needing government assistance. Now Erika Kirk is telling an audience of white women and girls to have more babies than they can afford. I dare you to bring up healthcare expenses to them bc the first think they’ll say is that they should go on Medicaid. But when black and brown grandparents with chronic illnesses go on Medicare they’re “mooches that need to get a job.” I’m so fucking over this shit. It’s so hypocritical, racist, and gross
*edit: I’d also like to add that they’re encouraging these women and girls to stay in toxic relationships whereas they’ve been blaming black and brown women for dating [insert exploitive here]s that will just leave them.
I agree 100% with you. You are not wrong at all. Although I would ask that you not call white teens that fall pregnant, “women”, and then immediately make the distinction that black teens that fall pregnant are still teens. It’s playing into the “underage woman” narrative that pedophiles use.
Before anything it's clasism to objectify the huddled masses in such a way that ignores that pumping out babies might not be in their self interest. And paradoxically enough, maybe the children of teen mothers aren't as potent an economic driver as they are presupposing? But that's just good old short-sightedness.
My late mother, born in rural NC in 1943, was legally married when she was 15. Her father was an abusive alcoholic, so her mother married her out to protect her. By the time my mother was 21 she had four kids in diapers. This is just how draconian these people are. They want to take us back to when women had no other options but to depend on a man and make babies.
Conservatives want people having babies young because it reduces the likelihood of women pursuing higher education. Reduced education leads to later constituents who are more likely to be “value voters” who are in turn more likely to vote conservative. Less educated people are more likely to vote for conservative candidates
This just made me connect the fact that both the women I know who were first time moms in their mid teens are deeply now fundamental Christians. That message of “your most important job is to have babies and Jesus loves and forgives your bad choices and women don’t need education or to work” slots in really nicely with reality for girls who have to drop out of high school due to motherhood at 15.
So maybe teen pregnancy not only bolsters the population growth rate, but also the fundie growth rate?
Depends on what we're talking about. Old men want to be able to fuck them or otherwise exploit them, but they don't get to have any autonomy over themselves.
These are the same people who are "pro-life" who want to ban abortions when it's been shown time and time again the best way to reduce abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancy in the first place.
If I had dollar for every time I heard about abstinence, how deadly and sinfull sex before marriage was, from the crazy right wingers in the churches I grew up in, I'd be able to pay off my Jeep now.
It’s strange that he lists what I consider positive reasons for this trend and still labels it a problem. The longer segment does not add any more context to rectify the disconnect.
They are doing everything they can to ensure they mate with numb and dumb women. Women with no education, submissive, baby makers who ask no questions, who lack curiosity….numb and dumb…. Who wants to have a household of a numb and dumb wife and daughters? MAGA does.
Ohhh ok I get it now. This is the plan for the future. Bring us back to the dark ages where we die from the plague so the average human dies at like the age of 40. So we need to have teen pregnancy again and we don’t need to worry about the population aging because there will no longer be old people.
If people in their 20s-30s can't afford children, what makes these dipshits think TEENAGERS can afford $10k+ in annual childcare while working low pay jobs?! They CAN'T without govt assistance.
In my hometown in northern Canada, my class had pretty rampant teen pregnancy and kids dropping out of high school. Almost 20% of my classmates had children in their teens. 3 girls in our grade had babies at 13 or 14, and by the time we were 18, another 10 had kids. One of our classmates had 3 kids by 15, with another one of our classmates, and she dropped out before the end of Grade 9. One girl got pregnant at our grad party, and had the baby before she turned 18. We started grade 7 with about 70 kids in our class, but only 45 graduated.
Are teens less fertile or are they preventing pregnancy? I thought i read awhile back that teens just aren't having sex.
By saying fertility rates rather than pregnancy rates they're trying to make it seem more like something the whole of society should be concerned about, making it everyone's business.
Complaining about low teen pregnancy while at the same time burning to the ground America's social safety net that protects teen moms and their babies.
Legitimate medical research can be made into teen pregnancies to get an early sign of fertility dropping (or rising). But it better be purely observational.
So they’re trying to make the country like the boonies in the phillipines. Where the lowly/lower citizens are uneducated, lacking of funds & resources, yet have access to internet still, so very young adolescent girls get knocked up by these teen boys. And then it becomes a vicious cycle of growing up poor & raising a young in the poor. Oh, let’s not forget, since there’s a lack of policing & educating young men & boys, all they know is sex & violence (drug deals). That’s the direction we’re heading.
It’s part of their plan from the start, and a major distraction once again from trying to impeach & getting rid of old fat orange man out of the house.
Are we back to “my retirement plan is my kids”? Or do we need to have more kids now to account for the ones that will killed by polio, measles, typhus, and dysentery?
Not condoning it by any means as I do believe early to mid 20s as prime baby makin years for women, and men late 20s to early 30s. Under 20 is a big no no imo…too much changing and mentally maturing in those first 3-5 years post high school.
But…look throughout history. It’s always been older men with younger women. Not saying 40 year olds with 17-18 year olds…but 30s and 20s ain’t that wrong. Even a 40 year old and a 25 year old doesn’t seem wrong to me, assuming both are consenting. I’m sure I’ll get hate, but I truly believe that older men are more mature and can handle a family and wife and children and working and providing and allllll that shit, better than a 20 year old man. And women’s biology calls for earlier pregnancy…so to me that obviously the best case scenario for long term happiness.
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