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A new investigation in some of the United States' most religious regions has revealed that states that are highly religious, and where people are most conservative, tend to have higher teen-pregnancy and birth rates than other areas of the country. The researchers in charge of the paper say that a large number of causes for this phenomenon exists. On the one hand, people who adhere, for example, to a literal interpretation of the Bible tend to be less open to contraception for their kids. On the other hand, most of the time, parents fail to discourage and prevent relationships between teens. “We conjecture that religious communities in the US are more successful in discouraging the use of contraception among their teenagers than they are in discouraging intercourse itself,” Drexel University College of Medicine study researcher Joseph Strayhorn, who also holds an appointment at the University of Pittsburgh, says. He highlights the fact that a strict cause-effect conne!
ction between religion and teen rates has not been determined statistically, but that the numbers clearly show some correlation exists, LiveScience reports. The new study, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Reproductive Health, also shows that Mississippi is by far the leader in both the number of conservative, re...
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