(Fwd) Re: Bikinimania and teen birth rate

["Judith Brown" <jlbrown@turbonet.com>]

I don't know about "unwed teen pregnancy rate", but Idaho's teen 
birth rate is considerably (28%) below the national average and 
declining.  Only 14 states have a lower teen birth rate than Idaho.

Within Idaho, Latah County has by far and away the lowest teen birth 
rate of all the counties -- 8.5 births per 1000 women ages 15-17, 
compared to 28 births per 1000 for the state as a whole.

These figures are from the KidsCount data book.

Maybe we're doing a pretty good job in Latah county of motivating our 
young women (and men too, I hope) to delay parenthood until 
they are really ready.  Let's keep it up!

Judy Brown

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Date:          Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:58:28 -0800 (PST)
From:          Scott Dredge <sdredge@yahoo.com>
Subject:       Re: Bikinimania
To:            Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>

Annually, Idaho ranks at or very near the top of states with the
highest unwed teen pregnancy rate.  I find it odd that a simple bikini
contest can create such an uproar.  God forbid if the young women of
Moscow actually take enough pride in their figures to showcase them
rather than follow in the barefootsteps of so many of the past and
present unmarried/underaged baby factories.

-SD

---Lois Melina <lmelina@moscow.com> wrote:
>
> Whether the young women of Moscow walk down a catwalk in bikinis to be
> "judged" on their physical appearance is not trivial because it
speaks to
> the values we as parents and as community members want our young
people to
> have. I want the young women of Moscow, like young women everywhere,
to
> value themselves enough to want to be evaluated for a broad range of
> abilities. I want the young men of Moscow, like young men
everywhere, to
> look at women and see more than what immediately jumps out at them.
When we
> "measure" our young women I hope it is to see to what degree they have
> fulfilled their potential and given back to their communities; not
to see
> what their bra size is. When our young men look at our young women,
I hope
> it is to see the depth of their character not just the depth of their
> cleavage. Unless we as parents, and as leaders in the community,
monitor
> this, we will raise a superficial generation--one that does not have
the
> capacity to care about the civil rights of welfare recipients.
> 
> Lois Melina
> ----------
> > From: G M <herecomestheflood@yahoo.com>
> > To: Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
> > Subject: Bikinimania
> > Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 6:46 PM
> > 
> > 
> > Can't the bikini contests just wait until we get the new pool
built? 
> > And then, to appease/please Mayme Trumble, include guys?
> > 
> > But seriously...all this reaction about teens in bikinis while
> > virtually no one comments on recent posts concerning the dark and
> > forboding nature of:
> > 
> > 1) Requiring welfare recipients to submit to urinalysis.
> > 
> > 2) Proposed broad investigatory powers of FDIC.
> > 
> > Wow.
> > 
> > I'm no "Beach" fan, but considering other scenerios looming before
us,
> > young adults parading in two-piece bathing suits seems somewhat,
well,
> > trivial.
> > 
> > 
> > Greg Meyer
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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