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Are most people well informed about the failure rate of birth control? In my experience many are not. The original quote about her having the child of the wron

Are most people well informed about the failure rate of birth control? In my experience many are not. The original quote about her having the child of the wrong guy may as well say she 'got raped by the wrong guy'. We are rarely masters of our own fate, although I can see why you as a very wealthy individual like to delude yourself into thinking that, it's more comforting.

yummyfajitas 13y ago
The birth rate for unmarried women is 4.7%, and the pregnancy rate for unmarried women is about 9%. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarry.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarry.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf The "perfect use" (i.e., use a condom every time) failure rate of condoms is about 2%. So at least 60% of unmarried women who give birth and 80% of unmarried women who get pregnant did so as a result of choosing to have sex without a condom.
- potatolicious 13y ago
  That's not what "perfect use" means. Perfect use means using a form of birth control every time and using it correctly. Information about contraceptives is greatly lacking in many parts of the US, and condoms in particular can fail in a litany of ways besides their non-use, mostly due to user error. > "So at least 60% of unmarried women who give birth and 80% of unmarried women who get pregnant did so as a result of choosing to have sex without a condom." You're seriously reaching here. This files under the same logic as "20% of animals in the zoo are elephants, therefore the other 80% are alligators". You're jumping from "perfect use (with a gross misunderstanding of the definition of perfect use) failure rate of condoms is 2%" to "therefore it follows that everyone who doesn't fall into bucket A falls into bucket B".
  - yummyfajitas 13y ago
    I think you are correct about the definition of "perfect use" - after googling it, it also includes people who didn't follow the rules of the method. This files under the same logic as "20% of animals in the zoo are elephants, therefore the other 80% are alligators". No, this files under the same logic as "20% of animals in the zoo are elephants, therefore the other 80% are not elephants". You either choose to use birth control and follow the rules of the method (assuming you also choose to have vaginal sex), or you don't. We can compute the pregnancy rate that would result if everyone practiced safe sex or abstinence - any excess must be the result of unsafe sex.

yummyfajitas 13y ago

The birth rate for unmarried women is 4.7%, and the pregnancy rate for unmarried women is about 9%. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarry.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarry.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf The "perfect use" (i.e., use a condom every time) failure rate of condoms is about 2%. So at least 60% of unmarried women who give birth and 80% of unmarried women who get pregnant did so as a result of choosing to have sex without a condom.

potatolicious 13y ago
That's not what "perfect use" means. Perfect use means using a form of birth control every time and using it correctly. Information about contraceptives is greatly lacking in many parts of the US, and condoms in particular can fail in a litany of ways besides their non-use, mostly due to user error. > "So at least 60% of unmarried women who give birth and 80% of unmarried women who get pregnant did so as a result of choosing to have sex without a condom." You're seriously reaching here. This files under the same logic as "20% of animals in the zoo are elephants, therefore the other 80% are alligators". You're jumping from "perfect use (with a gross misunderstanding of the definition of perfect use) failure rate of condoms is 2%" to "therefore it follows that everyone who doesn't fall into bucket A falls into bucket B".
- yummyfajitas 13y ago
  I think you are correct about the definition of "perfect use" - after googling it, it also includes people who didn't follow the rules of the method. This files under the same logic as "20% of animals in the zoo are elephants, therefore the other 80% are alligators". No, this files under the same logic as "20% of animals in the zoo are elephants, therefore the other 80% are not elephants". You either choose to use birth control and follow the rules of the method (assuming you also choose to have vaginal sex), or you don't. We can compute the pregnancy rate that would result if everyone practiced safe sex or abstinence - any excess must be the result of unsafe sex.