Apparently the pregnancy rate among younger people is dropping. Some folks would like to credit various forms of
"non-intuitive" sex education courses:
The annual number of teen births in Hennepin County has dropped by half since 2007, a startling reduction that many health officials are attributing to investments in “nonintuitive” sex education.
Declines were sharpest in Brooklyn Center and in Richfield, two communities where the county established school Teen Outreach Programs (TOP), which focus first on instilling personal and community values.
That could be it. Or maybe there's another explanation:
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Another. How has the demographics of the region changed in that time period?
Both suburbs are first ring with a lot of post WWII housing. Richfield is south of Minneapolis and tends to be more affluent than Brooklyn Center, which adjoins the north side of Minneapolis, which is a significantly poorer area. I'd say that Richfield skews older and is more stable, while Brooklyn Center has had a lot of transition over the last 10-20 years.
Demographics, Bill Clinton, and probably that the boys have seen so much (porn, lingerie ads, Kim K., etc..) that the girls can't get the boys' attention anymore.
To draw a picture, at an outstate county fair, my wife noticed that many of the teen boys were not even glancing in the direction of young ladies whose hemlines were a couple of millimeters from an indecent exposure arrest.
And if you can't even get attention that way, chances are you won't be late.
I was thinking maybe... if these areas were recently over run by somali migration, with their stricter mores, that might b the answer. But now im thinkin bubba just might on target. If its always there, its not sexy anymore.
Only 25000 Somalis in MN--not enough to throw the numbers off in Bloomington, let alone Minneapolis or St. Paul.
It could be that despite what I see in terms of attire, people really are being more conservative in their behavior from a moral point of view, too. Hard to differentiate, really. But I think that when young boys see a ton of cleavage and stretch pants all the time, the effect wears off.
Only 25k? Then i must have see half them in just my short visit.
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