August 25, 2016
BECAUSE HUMAN LIFE IS A "HARM":
Surprise! Fake Babies Actually Make Kids Think Teenage Motherhood is Awesome : A new study found that infant simulators increase teenage girls' odds of getting pregnant. (BECCA ANDREWS, AUG. 25, 2016, Mother Jones)
It's a common scare tactic in school systems that have the money to pull it off: Give teenage girls dolls that cry incessantly, need to be changed often, and basically acts like any newborn would. Make them take care of it for a grade. The exercise will, in theory, deter girls from pregnancy by having them deal with the consequences in advance, and it can earn them an easy A.But in a new study, Australian researchers found that the exercise is doing more harm than good--when they compared girls in Australia who participated in the program to girls who did not, eight percent of the girls who carried the doll gave birth at least once while they were still in high school, compared with four percent of girls in the control group who never worked with the doll.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 25, 2016 4:19 PM