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

wcmagumba

(6,398 posts)
2. WTAF is wrong with these people?
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 11:46 AM
Apr 11

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

patphil

(9,137 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
Apr 11

dickthegrouch

(4,570 posts)
24. To do what? At what tiny wages?
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:16 PM
Apr 11

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

(196,841 posts)
21. More Christian soldiers vs. useless eaters
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:09 PM
Apr 11

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

MineralMan

(151,413 posts)
7. No Shortage of Middle-Aged GOOPers
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:05 PM
Apr 11

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

ProfessorGAC

(76,977 posts)
8. How 18th Century Of Them
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:12 PM
Apr 11

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

(76,977 posts)
28. Probably So
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:24 PM
Apr 11

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

(196,841 posts)
33. I really think this is a watered down Great Replacement/Bro culture thing
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:15 PM
Apr 11

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

(76,977 posts)
39. That Sure Could Be The Case
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 04:39 PM
Apr 11

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

(27,672 posts)
34. I'm guessing that the peak after WWII...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:18 PM
Apr 11

…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

(25,057 posts)
30. We should be celebrating this drop!
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:30 PM
Apr 11

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

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

What he said stands as sufficiently reprehensible.

lastlib

(28,398 posts)
14. For a 15-y/o girl to have a baby.....
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:27 PM
Apr 11

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

GoCubsGo

(34,948 posts)
29. It's the same Republican Party who, up until now, vilified teenage girls
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:26 PM
Apr 11

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

(27,672 posts)
35. They probably still do...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:22 PM
Apr 11

…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

(49,416 posts)
15. They don't want teens to have sex before they get married.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 12:51 PM
Apr 11

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

(15,465 posts)
17. They want other people's teen girls to get married and quit high school.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 01:53 PM
Apr 11
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

(49,416 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
Apr 11

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

(2,075 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
Apr 11

Iggo

(49,974 posts)
22. Let me fix that.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:13 PM
Apr 11

“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

(18,900 posts)
31. My neighbor's 10 year old daughter is already a grandmother,...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:31 PM
Apr 11

... 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

(72,315 posts)
36. These assholes live in mortal terror of a labor deficit.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:24 PM
Apr 11

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

(49,974 posts)
40. A non-white plurality America is certainly coming.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:08 PM
Apr 11

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

multigraincracker

(37,804 posts)
37. This planet can only support 1/3 of
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:33 PM
Apr 11

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

(39,889 posts)
41. When girls turn 15...
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:11 PM
Apr 11

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

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Fox News "...teens and yo...