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Here is question for you! Who is supposed to be having babies?
Hmmm tough one that, let me guess, is it young women?
Yes it is and basically they are not. They are waiting until they are older then, in a desparate attempt to wind back their biological clock, they are resorting to fertility treatments. This in turn is leading to multiple birth pregnancies which, in turn, leads to complications and babies dying. Multiple births climbed more than 400 percent between 1980 and 1998 because of fertility treatments by older women, the CDC has reported.
Couple this with the higher instance of babies with birth defects or other potentially deadly complications in women in their 30s and 40s and you get the first increase in infant mortality rates in the US in quite some time. It is a trend we are likely to see continue unless women return to having children at a younger age.
Ideology aside, if you are a women, for your own physical wellbeing, it pays to have your children young or not at all.
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or read the most recent entries here.I think that this article is highly unacceptable in todays society. The content within this passage is portraying the wrong message to the younger generation of today. The youth would begin to think 'if they dont have babies NOW, they wont be able to have babies naturally at all, therefore putting younger people under an enourmous amounts of pressure to concieve. Maybe this one of the many reasons why there is such an increase of young mothers in the world today.
Posted by: Rebekkah Jamieson at March 22, 2004 04:23 PMI think that this article is highly unacceptable in todays society. The content within this passage is portraying the wrong message to the younger generation of today. The youth would begin to think 'if they dont have babies NOW, they wont be able to have babies naturally at all, therefore putting younger people under an enourmous amounts of pressure to concieve. Maybe this one of the many reasons why there is such an increase of young mothers in the world today.
Posted by: Rebekkah Jamieson at March 22, 2004 04:23 PMMy understanding is that the content is accurate and based on solid research by the CDC. Please feel free to check the CDC website yourself.
The message for young women is that they will find it harder, and sometimes impossible, to get pregnant when they get older. If they choose to wait they will also have a higher chance of giving birth to babies with birth defects. There are no value statements in this piece, just the hard reality of our biology.
I am surprised you would not want young women to have all the facts so that they could make an informed choice.
Posted by: GreenMan at March 23, 2004 08:11 AM
Stumble It!