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The dudes that cause teenage pregnancy are also usually infant simulators.

I think that's a little unfair...

Teenage boys want to do "the thing" with girls that has an unfortunate side effect of potential pregnancy.

We can't act like this isn't natural...we can just make sure they have the tools to be safe and make sure accidents don't happen...

And some teenage girls too. Unless all those pregnancies come from rape.

Don't assume that females are asexual beings of light. The amount of sexual yours for women should tell your something

Your point is valid for situations with relatively similar ages, but the fathers of pregnant teenage girls are on-average older, and not-uncommonly significantly so. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10227344/

I think that is a pretty misandrist take.

Sex and sex drive is a part of healthy adolescence for both genders. It has nothing to do with emotional immaturity.

I assume they mean the mature ones are responsibly using contraception, being cautious not to impregnate anyone. Anecdotally, my experience is the immature and irresponsible types also carry that over into reproductive/parenting aspects of their life.

Perhaps things are different from when I was an adolescent, but my observation was that teen pregnancy had a lot more to do with family religion and socioeconomic class then safe sex practices.

My experience would say those things might be correlated with reproductive responsibility, but there were some well-off guys and some not so well off guys I knew who where careless/reckless. I don't think I had enough data on the different religions to form much of a comparison.

Checks out in my observations.

Jokes aside, the infant simulators used in the study could not possibly replicate the economic and emotional turmoil of being a working class single mom in 2023 United States. In this respect, the dudes might be even better simulators.

This study took place in Australia.

Being a working class single mom in Australia is no walk in the park either.

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