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Originally Posted by n0c0ntr0l
It wasn't luck. Just because in America they only push abstinence doesn't mean this is the case in the rest of the world. Here we actually get taught to use condoms etc. And I've never not worn a condom (girlfriend on the pill is excluded). In the neatherlands the parents talk to their kids about sex and they even allow teens to sleep in the same bed under their roof and look at this, they have one of the lowest teenage pregnancy rates in the world. If you are stupid enough to have unprotected sex then you deserve everything you get, but a lot of people are not and actually wrap up where I'm from.
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While those things are important, and do actually help, a large portion of why certain countries (sweden, japan, the swiss, netherlands, etc.) are low in teen pregnancy is because they are simply countries where there is a large amount of old people, and not many young people. If you want a true picture you need to take teen pregnancy rate per actual amount of teenagers, not just general population.
Seriously, compare the countries that are low teen pregnancy with those that are the oldest in median age, and you'll find the lists to be nearly identical. Which is also why in some of those countries, especially Japan, there is actually a large worry of a dramatic population decrease due to low birth rates.
Your point is still valid in some ways, but the information with which you tried to increase it's strength was not.