3 ms·

It’s on a completely different level today and it’s not even close. How many babies are born out of wedlock? Now multiply that by a huge number to get the numbe

It’s on a completely different level today and it’s not even close. How many babies are born out of wedlock? Now multiply that by a huge number to get the number aborted. It’s massively different than it was. Rates too I’m sure. Sex without consequences has been the siren song of the last 60+ years and for good reason if you take care. And I didn’t say it’s a solution because it’s not. It’s good advice for various reasons but it needs to be supplemented with lots of knowledge on how to protect yourself too.

kelseyfrog 4y ago
> How many babies are born out of wedlock? Your argument would be better[1] if you supplied the numbers instead of assuming them and then arguing from the consequence. 1. ie: work
Retric 4y ago
Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down. What confuses the issue is total births have fallen even faster. But frankly married couples regularly having 10+ kids wasn’t something to celebrate. Really though these are the kinds of statistics people love to mess with. Do you count rates of pregnancy for unmarried adult women, or rates of unmarried pregnancy out of the adult/total population, or even rates of unmarried pregnancy out of the total number of pregnancies? Why not look at them all and pick whichever one supports the point you’re trying to make…
- simonsarris 4y ago
  > Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down. What on earth? When did you last check that? Percent of births to unmarried women has gone from 5% in the early 1900s to 15% by 1980 and then ballooned to 40% this decade https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-births-to-unmarried-women/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-...
  - Retric 4y ago
    > Percent of births to unmarried women Again, that doesn’t mean the rate of unmarried women having children has increased because the rate of married women having children has declined. Similarly the percentage of married women has fallen dramatically. And of course the US in 1900 is hardly the beginning of time.

kelseyfrog 4y ago

> How many babies are born out of wedlock? Your argument would be better[1] if you supplied the numbers instead of assuming them and then arguing from the consequence. 1. ie: work

Retric 4y ago

Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down. What confuses the issue is total births have fallen even faster. But frankly married couples regularly having 10+ kids wasn’t something to celebrate. Really though these are the kinds of statistics people love to mess with. Do you count rates of pregnancy for unmarried adult women, or rates of unmarried pregnancy out of the adult/total population, or even rates of unmarried pregnancy out of the total number of pregnancies? Why not look at them all and pick whichever one supports the point you’re trying to make…

simonsarris 4y ago
> Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down. What on earth? When did you last check that? Percent of births to unmarried women has gone from 5% in the early 1900s to 15% by 1980 and then ballooned to 40% this decade https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-births-to-unmarried-women/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-...
- Retric 4y ago
  > Percent of births to unmarried women Again, that doesn’t mean the rate of unmarried women having children has increased because the rate of married women having children has declined. Similarly the percentage of married women has fallen dramatically. And of course the US in 1900 is hardly the beginning of time.