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Fox News "...teens and young adults...ages 15-19..." aren't having enough babies (Original Post) underpants 11 hrs ago OP
15? spanone 11 hrs ago #1
WTAF is wrong with these people? wcmagumba 11 hrs ago #2
They want workers RandySF 11 hrs ago #4
American born, poor workers, who'll take the jobs left open by throwing out millions of undocumented immigrants. patphil 11 hrs ago #5
To do what? At what tiny wages? dickthegrouch 8 hrs ago #24
More Christian soldiers vs. useless eaters underpants 8 hrs ago #21
Nothing says statutory rape like Fox News leftstreet 11 hrs ago #3
The birth rate for 15-18 year olds should be ZERO, in my professional opinion. 3catwoman3 11 hrs ago #6
No Shortage of Middle-Aged GOOPers MineralMan 10 hrs ago #7
Especially If The Teen Girls Are School-Board "HOT." 🤨🧐 ColoringFool 10 hrs ago #11
Handmaids underpants 8 hrs ago #18
How 18th Century Of Them ProfessorGAC 10 hrs ago #8
Peaked post WWII. Notice the drop starting early 70's - Roe I'm guessing underpants 8 hrs ago #25
Probably So ProfessorGAC 8 hrs ago #28
I really think this is a watered down Great Replacement/Bro culture thing underpants 7 hrs ago #33
That Sure Could Be The Case ProfessorGAC 6 hrs ago #39
I'm guessing that the peak after WWII... regnaD kciN 7 hrs ago #34
We should be celebrating this drop! DBoon 8 hrs ago #30
Societies are better off when age of first bith is over 19 IbogaProject 8 hrs ago #32
🎶 "'P, E, D, O, P, H, I-L-E' Spells 'PEDOPHILE'!" 🎶 ColoringFool 10 hrs ago #9
Not enough 14 year olds getting pregnant for the Republican Party. Renew Deal 10 hrs ago #10
Not That It Matters Substantially, But He Said "15...," not 14...... ColoringFool 10 hrs ago #12
For a 15-y/o girl to have a baby..... lastlib 10 hrs ago #14
It's the same Republican Party who, up until now, vilified teenage girls GoCubsGo 8 hrs ago #29
They probably still do... regnaD kciN 7 hrs ago #35
And competition for jobs will be fierce. travelingthrulife 10 hrs ago #13
They don't want teens to have sex before they get married. tanyev 10 hrs ago #15
They want other people's teen girls to get married and quit high school. haele 9 hrs ago #17
Yes, and the most likely scenario that occurred to me after my first post was that they are envisaging older men tanyev 8 hrs ago #23
Then when they have no means of financially caring for themselves the R's call them welfare queens? Jacson6 9 hrs ago #16
I don't think they've thought that out underpants 8 hrs ago #20
Just ... wow. What a world. RandomNumbers 8 hrs ago #19
Let me fix that. Iggo 8 hrs ago #22
It's right in their nickname: G.O.P. -misanthroptimist 8 hrs ago #26
UnF'enBelievable! NoMoreRepugs 8 hrs ago #27
My neighbor's 10 year old daughter is already a grandmother,... magicarpet 8 hrs ago #31
These assholes live in mortal terror of a labor deficit. Aristus 7 hrs ago #36
💯 + Christian soldiers and Great Replacement underpants 7 hrs ago #38
A non-white plurality America is certainly coming. Iggo 2 hrs ago #40
This planet can only support 1/3 of multigraincracker 7 hrs ago #37
When girls turn 15... lame54 2 hrs ago #41

wcmagumba

(6,305 posts)
2. WTAF is wrong with these people?
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 11:46 AM
11 hrs ago

Effing RWNJs, we needs more babies and we needs them now...Jeez...

patphil

(9,107 posts)
5. American born, poor workers, who'll take the jobs left open by throwing out millions of undocumented immigrants.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 11:54 AM
11 hrs ago

dickthegrouch

(4,552 posts)
24. To do what? At what tiny wages?
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:16 PM
8 hrs ago

None of those poor babies are going to get decent jobs, Abundant Iniquity is going to take most of them.
Anything left as pickings, even for new grads, is going to pay peanuts.
Barely enough even to tax, far less live on, independently.

underpants

(196,694 posts)
21. More Christian soldiers vs. useless eaters
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:09 PM
8 hrs ago

Eh, let them fight it out for the amusement of Epstein class.

MineralMan

(151,359 posts)
7. No Shortage of Middle-Aged GOOPers
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:05 PM
10 hrs ago

willing and eager to knock up those 15-18 year old girls, too. Just line 'em up and pass out little blue pills.

ProfessorGAC

(76,893 posts)
8. How 18th Century Of Them
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:12 PM
10 hrs ago

Ages 15-19?
In the industrial age, when was it ever wise for 15 year olds to have a kid of their own?
And in the last 75 years, what percentage of 15-19 year olds were having kids anyway.

ProfessorGAC

(76,893 posts)
28. Probably So
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:24 PM
8 hrs ago

But, even around WW2, I doubt many people were encouraging 16 year olds to make babies.
Even when I was a kid in the 60s, there were special "schools" where pregnant teens went away for a while because teen pregnancy was taboo.
That was 60 years ago and these fools are thinking it's a good idea now?

underpants

(196,694 posts)
33. I really think this is a watered down Great Replacement/Bro culture thing
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:15 PM
7 hrs ago

Christian soldiers and voters for the former.

Subjugation of women for the latter.
Andrew Tate - Dave Portnoy (Barstool Sports)/Rogan - Tucker/Sen. Hawley 🙄 - presentable on Fox News. I might’ve skipped a few layers there.

Side note on the “schools” you mentioned. Hillary’s parents got pregnant I think on prom night. Never wanted her and made no secret of it. Once she could handle a fork/spoon she was on her own. No birthday parties or presents. None. Not sure about Christmas gifts.

ProfessorGAC

(76,893 posts)
39. That Sure Could Be The Case
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 04:39 PM
6 hrs ago

Back when I first got XM, I listened to Barstool for a while.
That didn't last long.
A gaggle of sexist buffoons.

regnaD kciN

(27,663 posts)
34. I'm guessing that the peak after WWII...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:18 PM
7 hrs ago

…was centered on 18-19 year olds marrying right after high school and having babies right away, rather than much in the 15-17 range. Furthermore, the lower levels before that were probably due in part to many males of that age being in the military overseas.

DBoon

(25,032 posts)
30. We should be celebrating this drop!
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:30 PM
8 hrs ago

Teens are recognizing the effect early pregnancy will have on their future life and are planning for their futures.

Among those teens who have had sex, the majority (81% of females and 84% of males) used a contraceptive method the first time they had sex.


From the Pew research report

ColoringFool

(765 posts)
12. Not That It Matters Substantially, But He Said "15...," not 14......
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:23 PM
10 hrs ago

What he said stands as sufficiently reprehensible.

lastlib

(28,347 posts)
14. For a 15-y/o girl to have a baby.....
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:27 PM
10 hrs ago

she would almost have to get pregnant at 14. (just the right age for repuglykans... )

GoCubsGo

(34,938 posts)
29. It's the same Republican Party who, up until now, vilified teenage girls
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:26 PM
8 hrs ago

for getting pregnant. Go figure. No doubt they will continue to shit on the ones of color. White teens only--which is what this is really all about. Trying to stave of white people becoming a minority...

regnaD kciN

(27,663 posts)
35. They probably still do...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:22 PM
7 hrs ago

…it’s just that, while they consider the girl to be a “slut,” they celebrate the guy who knocked her up as a “red-blooded American alpha male.”

tanyev

(49,356 posts)
15. They don't want teens to have sex before they get married.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:51 PM
10 hrs ago

They don’t want teen mothers to have high schools that provide childcare.

They’d have a fit if high-schoolers got married and kept going to high school, flaunting their sex-filled married lives to their classmates.

They really don’t want to provide government assistance to teen parents who don’t yet have a diploma, a degree or training that will allow them to find work that can support a family.

They are so full of shit.

haele

(15,430 posts)
17. They want other people's teen girls to get married and quit high school.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 01:53 PM
9 hrs ago
Their precious little princesses are going to be virgins, who graduate High School and go to college to meet eligible young men with prospects, allowing them to apply for the socially acceptable MRS degree...


On edit - After all, who cares about the poors or any of the other non-GOP in groupers? They're just annoyances or at best tools and their kids are nothing but fungible breeding stock.

tanyev

(49,356 posts)
23. Yes, and the most likely scenario that occurred to me after my first post was that they are envisaging older men
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:16 PM
8 hrs ago

marrying girls in that 15-19 age range. Man in his 30s gets a compliant young wife to pop out babies, cook and clean. Works great (for him) until he decides he wants a younger model and now the first wife has no education or job skills, 3 kids to take care of and an ex-husband who may or may not pay his child support.

Jacson6

(2,049 posts)
16. Then when they have no means of financially caring for themselves the R's call them welfare queens?
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 01:38 PM
9 hrs ago

Iggo

(49,953 posts)
22. Let me fix that.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:13 PM
8 hrs ago

“White teenagers aren’t having enough babies. And not any old white teenagers. Not the daughters of the Epstein class. We’re talking about the daughters of the poorest of the red hat maga faithful.”

There.
Fixed.

magicarpet

(18,654 posts)
31. My neighbor's 10 year old daughter is already a grandmother,...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:31 PM
8 hrs ago

... I'll bet Fux Nuz would find that just dandy & jolly & the act of a good American family trying to procreate to make our nation strong.

Provided all parties involved are White.

Aristus

(72,268 posts)
36. These assholes live in mortal terror of a labor deficit.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:24 PM
7 hrs ago

As long as there is a labor surplus, more people than jobs, employers can keep wages and benefits low, and fire anyone who complains. They can easily fill the job opening with someone currently unemployed.

As the birth rate goes down, the more likely it is that there will be a labor deficit, more jobs than people to do them. Employers have to hike wages and increase benefit packages in order to attract qualified people to do jobs they can afford to be more choosy about taking.

Iggo

(49,953 posts)
40. A non-white plurality America is certainly coming.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:08 PM
2 hrs ago

What terrifies the white supremacists is the thought of being a minority and being treated as poorly as they treated minorities.

multigraincracker

(37,745 posts)
37. This planet can only support 1/3 of
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:33 PM
7 hrs ago

its current population. Big problem in reducing the numbers in an orderly fashion.
We are seeing the effect of overpopulation with the new weather patterns that will only get worse.
We are screwed. Glad I will only have to see about 8-10 more years of it.

lame54

(39,819 posts)
41. When girls turn 15...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:11 PM
2 hrs ago

They'll sign up for the baby draft
If they call your number the govt will impregnate you

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