Current trends would still include rape and sexual assault though at lower levels.
What’s your point here? Just getting your jollies off on making sure I know I’m wrong and that pregnant 12 year olds are only getting pregnant from other 12 year olds these days?
There isn’t a more current study on this topic that I could reasonably find.
Just because it has decreased doesn’t mean that rape and sexual assaults don’t happen to teenagers and children anymore.
And they had said that it is not reasonable to say that teenage and underage pregnancies are bleak anymore.
Which is why I quoted their comment.
Rivalarrival said that this doesn’t say anything about rape:
Of the pregnant teenagers had had an unwanted sexual experience, the ages of the perpetrators were:
o 18% were within two years of the victim’s age
o 18% were 3-5 years older than the victim
o 17% were 6-10 years older than the victim
o 40% were more than ten years older than the victim (Gershenson et. al., 1989)
You can pretend like all of the teenagers in the study are 18 and 19 years old, but I would counter that would be a faulty assumption.
Adult men having sex with underage children is rape.
Do you think they delayed his arrest because he’s rich?
This is the point of research, and the thing is the ‘know-it-all’ type of debate ais all a result from your original statement. This isn’t about 12 year olds but the inherent logic within arguments.
I was replying to someone making a “not all men” type of argument.
Sexual assault and rape aren’t reported in high enough numbers to get super accurate data.
Again, I’m aware Lemmings overwhelmingly want to pretend that men are just misunderstood and feminists are all misandrists and logic is superior over all others.
I’ll let you have your pedantic little fits about the technicalities of child rape and impregnation. I’m done engaging with you.
Just because it’s better now doesn’t mean it’s perfect.
Women and girls still get raped and assaulted every day.
You also claimed those studies say nothing about child rape when it clearly shows adult men impregnate children.
And curiously enough tried to claim that underage pregnancy is no longer bleak.
Edit: what’s your point here? If it was just to point out the data is older, fine. Why are you pushing this idea that underage pregnancies are nothing to be worried about anymore and that it’s not bleak to have children being impregnated?
Do you really believe that because the rates have fallen that it’s not a concern or that it doesn’t occur?
That’s why I said “thanks in LARGE PART TO”
There’s a lack of information to really nail down the statistics here. A lot of that is because rape and sexual assault aren’t reported in very high numbers.
So it would track based off this information that includes 13 year olds that it is similar for 12 year olds. And I stand by my statement that most pregnant 12 year olds are victims.
I don’t care for this pedantic, know-it-all type of debates on these topics. We’re talking about pregnant 12 year olds.
Majority of rape and sexual assault aren’t going to appear in hard numbers like this because of lack of reporting.
You can pretend like underage pregnancies are all from consensual underage sex, but I’m not going to close my eyes to truths of the world.
Also adult men having sex with underage girls IS rape.
It’s reasonable to say that it was bleak. It is not reasonable to say that it is bleak.
He’s straight up pretending like child rape doesn’t exist anymore.
Yeah it is surprisingly short. I expected more, though this is just the reported cases.
Research suggests that multiple factors have led to lower teen birth rates in the United States. From the 1990s through 2019, the risk of teen pregnancy decreased primarily because of improved contraceptive use, including an increase in the use of more effective contraceptive methods (e.g., long-acting and reversible methods) and an increase in the use of multiple methods of contraception. During this period, some of the risk of pregnancy among younger teens declined because of decreased sexual activity; however, general trends in adolescent sexual activity have remained relatively stable. Broad economic and social variables may also influence teen behaviors, such as expanded educational or labor opportunities.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45184
12 year olds still being raped and impregnated is bleak.
Contraception use has thankfully made teen pregnancies decline, but sexual activity remains relatively steady.
Regardless, the majority of 12 year olds who find themselves pregnant are victims.
Yeah 12 year olds have only gotten more sexually adventurous and really, really want to get pregnant since then. Practically asking for it, y’know. Preteens just looooove taking old man dick.
I understand you want to pedantic and technically correct here. The truth is that most 12 year olds that are pregnant are victims.
The years of the studies are noted in my comment.
I tried poking around for more recent comprehensive studies, but there wasn’t as much out there.
Teen pregnancy is lower for sure thanks in large part to access to contraception. It’s not because sexual activity and rape went down.
I’m still confident based on all the available information that the majority of 12 year olds that find themselves pregnant are victims of men.
Yeah it’s really bleak. That’s why I don’t like seeing such casual whataboutism when it comes to young girls and their sexual activity.
It’s very “not all men”
70% of babies born to teenage mothers are fathered by adult men; only 30% are fathered by teenagers. (National Center for Health Statistics, 1992; California Center for Health Statistics, 1993).
19% of pregnant teenagers had partners 6 years older or more (Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994)
Of the pregnant teenagers had had an unwanted sexual experience, the ages of the perpetrators were:
o 18% were within two years of the victim’s age
o 18% were 3-5 years older than the victim
o 17% were 6-10 years older than the victim
o 40% were more than ten years older than the victim (Gershenson et. al., 1989)
Would you have preferred if they rushed the investigation and he got off because of it?
The point of the post is that a pregnant 12 year old is most likely a rape victim and finding the rapist should take precedence over preventing a child from getting an abortion.