blog post with all code & some detail tables: https://aaronjbecker.com/posts/comparing-young-adult-parenthood-rates-in-the-us/
by aar0nbecker
blog post with all code & some detail tables: https://aaronjbecker.com/posts/comparing-young-adult-parenthood-rates-in-the-us/
by aar0nbecker
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Data source: [Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT Data Center](https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/11184-young-adults-ages-18-to-24-who-are-parents?loc=1&loct=2#detailed/2/2-53/false/2606,880/any/21561)
Tools: Python, jupyter, pandas, geopandas, matplotlib
[Blog post will full code to reproduce the map, as well as some formatted tables](https://aaronjbecker.com/posts/comparing-young-adult-parenthood-rates-in-the-us/)
Good. Being a parent between 18 and 24 is almost always accidental and almost never a good thing.
Gen Z can barely feed themselves shit is so expensive. We should be happy that young people are waiting a hot minute before making a HUGE decision, like having a child, who will cost them $389,000 over 18 years. You don’t have to procreate at 19 ffs
Very cool to see this on a statewide basis! Genuinely such a positive improvement in the past couple of decades.
When it comes to reasons, Pew goes into them [here](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/02/why-is-the-teen-birth-rate-falling/). Some of them are cultural overall, but the ACA was also very important. More teens being able to use contraception and having access to more reliable (especially with average rather than ideal use) contraception has been a game changer.
Yeah they told us it was bad
“None of you will have jobs in 3-5 years.”
It’s almost like having the cost of everything and especially housing skyrocket, while wages stagnate in the toilet, and job hunting turns into the 6th circle of hell, is not a winning combination if you’re trying to create economic circumstances that encourage people to start families.
Thats pretty wild. The rate was cut in half in 23 years, and its likely only going to get worse. Dark times indeed
I genuinely think that shows like 16 & Pregnant had a LOT to do with this
Because no one can afford it cause corpos are milking us dry. There was a point where a single middle class income could support a whole family now 2 full adult incomes barely cover expenses
On the bright side, Mississippi was not the worst
My group of 10 high school friends are all 33 year old women. 4 of us are married with kids and only 1 had kids more than 3 years ago.
I like the definition of a child they live with. I feel like often the grandparents take care of the kid
The younger generation is having a lot less sex, so not surprising there’s a correlating decline in unplanned pregnancies