{"id":1194,"date":"2009-01-08T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2009-01-08T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:51:20","slug":"going-to-school-v-going-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/going-to-school-v-going-to-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to school v. going to church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr57\/nvsr57_07.pdf\">teen birth rate <\/a>has started climbing again. As usual, it\u2019s highest in red states and states with high black and Hispanic populations and lowest in New England blue states. In 2006, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Texas topped the list, with 68, 64, and 63 births for every 1000 female teens, respectively, compared to 19 births per 1000 female teens in New Hampshire and 21 in Vermont and Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Will more religion cure this scourge? Not by itself. Mexican-American teens have the highest birth rate\u201493 births per 1000 girls\u2014compared to 64 births per 1000 black girls and 26 births per 1000 white girls. Decadent secular Europe and non-Christian Asia lag far behind. In 2003, Japan\u2019s teen birthrate was 3.9 births per 1000 girls. Italy\u2019s rate was 6.9 per 1000, and France\u2019s, 10 births per 1000 girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teen birth rate has started climbing again. As usual, it\u2019s highest in red states and states with high black and Hispanic populations and lowest in New England blue states. In 2006, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Texas topped the list, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/going-to-school-v-going-to-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}