Teen Pregnancy Quotes:

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

- Jane Fonda

topic: Pregnancy, People, Parent, Bonding, Nurturing

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

- Jane Fonda

source: "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

topic: Country, Pregnancy, People, Teen Pregnancy

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

- Madisen Beaty

topic: Mom, Pregnancy, People, Teen Pregnancy

Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.

- Faye Wattleton

topic: Teenage, Nice, Pregnancy, Have A Nice Day, Nice Day

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

- Maggie Scarf

topic: Pregnancy, Skins, Company, Being Pregnant, Were Pregnant

The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

- Jerry Falwell

topic: Pregnancy, Offering, People, Cookbook, Contraceptives

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

- Leven Rambin

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Real, Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

- Al Franken

source: "Live from the Headlines" with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 25, 2003.

topic: Pregnancy, Use, Way, Teen Pregnancy

In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.

- George W. Bush

topic: Sex, Believe, Pregnancy, Volunteer Work, Popular Culture

Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Sex, Pregnancy, Goal, Wedlock, Teen Pregnancy

In 1962 and 1963, there were two abominable decisions out of the Supreme Court, and that was taking prayer out of school, and taking bible reading out of school. But you know, if you look at the statistics, two very critical things happened after that date. Number one: teen pregnancy skyrocketed. Number two: violent crime skyrocketed.

- Rafael Cruz

topic: Prayer, Reading, Pregnancy, Bible Reading, Violent Crimes

Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2

- MaryAnne Tebedo

topic: Funny, Witty, Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

- Gregory S. Paul

source: "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies". moses.creighton.edu. 2005.

topic: Pregnancy, Abortion, Religion, Teen Pregnancy

As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.

- Gwynne Dyer

topic: Country, Religious, Pregnancy, Syphilis, Gonorrhea

When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

- Maggie Gallagher

topic: Marriage, Pregnancy, School, Social Programs, Fragmentation

The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.

- Sam Harris

topic: Religious, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Infant Mortality, Teen Pregnancy