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Conservatives may believe that this country is full of wanton teens running around getting knocked up for fun, but they will be pleased to know that is actually not the case, According to new data from the Guttmacher Institute, teen pregnancies are on the downswing. In 2008, the year the most recent data is from, 7 percent of teen girls (ages 15 to 19) in the U.S. were pregnant. That's down from the high of 11 percent in 1990, and it's the lowest rate in nearly 40 years. As for abortions, about 1.8 percent of teens had one in 2008. That is down from more than 4 percent in 1988. More »
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"Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the [Billboard] Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages," declares SUNY Albany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs in her recent study about the prevalence of sex in American pop music. Are we at all surprised? More »
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There may be no new studies in the just-released White House Report on Women, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the report, which conveniently culls all relevant government data on women. That includes some breakdowns of things we've been hearing about for awhile — women's education attainment contrasting with the pay gap — and a few little surprises. Some highlights, here. More »
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Says one British researcher, "Women's aspiration to marry up, if they can, to a man who is better-educated and higher-earning persists in most European countries...Women thereby continue to use marriage as an alternative or supplement to their employment careers." More »
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Well, here's something lots of people will take credit for: The record fall in the teen birth rate. What's going on here? More »
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Warner Bros. came up with this little stat after researching piracy trends for many months. Blame the lady pirates' weakness on those addictive Gossip Girl and vampire shows! Despite this, most pirates are men ages 18 to 24. More »
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This graph, from a TED talk on Facebook visualizations, charts breakup cycles as monitored by Facebook. The good news? Christmas Day has the fewest breakups. Otherwise, it's grim — in a fascinating sort of way. More »
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Have Britain's middle-aged women been turned into "an army of unpaid carers who suffer losses in income, job prospects and health?" More »
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According to new census data, marriage rates in 2009 were the lowest they've been in a century. Why? It's the economy, stupid. Well, that, and the Wedding Channel. More »
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The latest salvo in OkCupid's ingenious campaign to woo us with data is the discovery that iPhone users have the most sex. But these meticulous statistics, interesting as they may be, are probably falling on deaf ears. More »
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The more we learn about marriage, the less we understand it. Awesome, right? More »
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Studies about pop culture are important because television helps to influence what we perceive as "normal" in our society. Today, the Parents Television Council reports an increase in depicted violence against women on television - which carry real life implications. More »
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Auto Trader has found that male Aquarians get into more accidents than any other group. Also accident-prone are those born in 1981 and Ford drivers, with Fridays as the most popular day for a fender bender. Auto Trader came to these conclusions by analyzing 4,600 insurance claims; to what end is unclear. (Good driving star signs include Scorpio and Sagittarius.) [Telegraph via Auto Trader] More »
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This morning, CNN, Fox News and Bloomberg News are all reporting that teen pregnancy is on the rise after a 15 year decline. The CDC statistics they used sounded awfully familiar, so I hopped into the Jezebel wayback machine and discovered that the "new" teen pregnancy statistics they're bemoaning were actually released in November, 2007, and merely re-released last week as part of a larger report called "America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2008." That report has all sorts of other information about teenagers — how much they're smoking, how frequently they're injured — and yet, CNN, Fox and Bloomberg all decided to go with the teen pregnancy statistics as their headlines and initial paragraphs. More »
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• We were "purchased" by Conde Nast...not. But you guys got your panties in some serious bunches about it.

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