Indeed, Yoshimi. Tanzania was coincidentally featured in the NYT's. More so, we wished to highlight the absurdity of discussing finding common ground with those who oppose abortion but similarly have little regard for those who struggle to simply live. Please (posted to World War, Never-Enough)
Yep, it just doesn't seem to make sense: If 53% of Latina teens are getting pregnant, and 8% of Latina teens are having babies, then that makes about 15% of pregnancies resulting in a birth. (8 births divided by 53 (posted to Help Latinas graduate from school.)
I'd add that if we use the Guttmacher stat of 13% for pregnancy rate, and do our division again -- given a sample of 100 Latina teens, this time 13 get pregnant, and once again 8 of those give birth, (posted to Help Latinas graduate from school.)
Steven, it's hard to know from the given data. The term birth-rate should be interpreted as "number of children born per 1000 women" in that year. We do know that not many women give birth twice in one year (posted to Help Latinas graduate from school.)
ps, sorry about this comment getting cut off. The rest was supposed to say "they are not counting the % of Latina teens who got pregnant in one given year, but rather the total cumulative number of Latinas who are (posted to Help Latinas graduate from school.)
How is your number crunching affected by the fact that one Latina could have numerous pregnancies and births before the age of 20? (posted to Help Latinas graduate from school.)
