Sunday, March 06, 2005

English-speaking teenage mothers

In this week's issues of New Scientist there is a story about teenage pregnancies and the need for more or less sex education. An accompanying graph shows that the top six countries in the world for the rate of teenage pregnancy are all Enlgish-speaking. Why is that? It could be a statistical anomaly, but to have all six at the top, above all other languages, must have some cultural significance.

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