in Texas the
steady decline in the teen birth rate since 2007 ended in 2022,
with a slight rise in overall teen births – up from 20.32 to 20.4
births per 1,000 (a 0.39% rise)
We’re talking about a change of less than half a percent - probably just statistical noise like the 1.74% increase in liberal Massachusetts during that time.
(Massachusetts still has a teen birth rate about 3.5 times lower than Texas. I thought that that might be due simply to differences in ethnic makeup, but non-Hispanic white people in Texas still have a teen birth rate almost double that of Massachusetts, so there must also be a large contribution from culture, government policy, or average income…)
We’re talking about a change of less than half a percent - probably just statistical noise like the 1.74% increase in liberal Massachusetts during that time.
(Massachusetts still has a teen birth rate about 3.5 times lower than Texas. I thought that that might be due simply to differences in ethnic makeup, but non-Hispanic white people in Texas still have a teen birth rate almost double that of Massachusetts, so there must also be a large contribution from culture, government policy, or average income…)