In the US, the birth rate for 15- to 19-year-olds dropped 7% last year. But what seems like good news for society has been lamented by some leading Maga figures<\/p>\n
Teenagers these days, eh? Instead of having unprotected sex and popping out babies, they\u2019re wasting their time on TikTok, or something. According to a recent report, the teenage birth rate in the US fell by 7% in 2025<\/a>. While this might seem like a positive development, it has been a cause of dismay among the Maga-adjacent crowd.<\/p>\n Take Fox News, which ran a segment framing the drop in teen pregnancies as alarming. \u201cWe still have 3.6 million births a year,\u201d noted the medical analyst Marc Siegel<\/a>. \u201cBut the problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15 to 19, the fertility rate is down 7%, and it\u2019s down 70% over the last two decades, meaning we\u2019re telling people that are young not to have babies, to wait until they\u2019re in a more stable life situation.\u201d I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s a problem<\/em>?<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the US, the birth rate for 15- to 19-year-olds dropped 7% last year. But what seems like good news for society has been lamented by some leading Maga figures Teenagers these days, eh? Instead of having unprotected sex and popping out babies, they\u2019re wasting their time on TikTok, or something. According to a recent … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}