NFP Catching On

[OriginalJS]

There are several news items on the net today reporting that a large percentage of teenage girls are using the “rhythm” method of birth control by timing their menstrual cycles. This seems like the essence of natural family planning.

 

[puzzleannie]

if there are several news sources please link one as per rules

no NFP is NOT the rhythm method if you want to know why visit those threads on the family forum where the experts are

and no teenage girls using rhythm to avoid pregnancy during casual sex are not using NFP because they are not planning families, since they are not married and hence not starting a family. “Stupid is as stupid does.”–Forrest Gump

 

[Dale_M]

According to a just released survey by the US Centers for Disease Control…

A growing number of teen girls say they use the rhythm method for birth control, and more teens also think it’s OK for an unmarried female to have a baby, according to a government survey released Wednesday.

About 17 percent of sexually experienced teen girls say they had used the rhythm method - timing their sex to avoid fertile days to prevent getting pregnant. That’s up from 11 percent in 2002.

They may have been using another form of birth control at the same time. But the increase is considered worrisome because the rhythm method doesn’t work about 25 percent of the time, said Joyce Abma, the report’s lead author. She’s a social scientist at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/02/AR2010060204592.html

The CDC is speculating that this may explain the recent increase in teen birth rate, after years of decline.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

Would that teenaged girls engaging in casual sex did use NFP to prevent pregnancy!

 

[Elizabeth502]

…Would that girls of any age not engage in casual sex with anyone except a spouse.

What a concept.