There is a boy in my bio class who works as an assistant at a pediatric office. During break time, he was telling us about the patients he sees. Sometimes a young girl will bring in her baby for a checkup, and when asked to sign the forms for her child, she can't. Why? Because she is not old enough and also goes to the same pediatrician when she is sick. This girl needs her mother to sign the papers for her baby! It never even occured to me that both a mother and child could go to the same place - same pediatric office for health checkups. The idea is somewhat disturbing.
I'm wondering if this is more common in the Michigan and the midwest than it is in the two coasts.
Michigan
All Races 133,714; 278; 15,383; 711; 1,702; 2,983; 4,428;
Those are the numbers for the total mothers who had births at under 15 yrs to 18 yrs respectively.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/statab/t1x1397.pdf
See the link below for a more comprehensive table of mean age of mothers for births. These numbers are high, but then there are unexpected statistics such as the number of birth for young mothers in Iowa is in the hundreds rather than thousands as in Michigan. Also, California appears to be a state with young mothers as well - unexpected for me. I guess the variable that may be different from CA vs MI stats is that maybe the mothers in CA are unmarried.
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you didn't list the races corresponding to those numbers... i was so confused... there were like commas, semicolons and commas, then some more...
Anyhow, yea, it's CRAZY... 15? man! what was i doing at 15?? I was only passing notes to boys i liked... wow!
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