Thanks Farrah Abraham: "Teen Mom" Shows Contributed To Decline In US Teen Childbearing
Want to be a teenage mother on your way to becoming a porn star? Probably not. The Farrah Abraham career arc has helped in significantly reducing births to teens, according to a new paper. How could that be determined? It's an economics claim so correlation-causation is not all that stringent. Wellesley College economist Phillip B. Levine and University of Maryland economist Melissa Schettini Kearney just go ahead and declare that MTV's "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" did the opposite of what social conservatives thought would happen when teen pregnancy was glorified; they say the shows significantly reduced births to teens, which means we could save billions on sex education classes and putting condoms on bananas and just encourage more reality shows. read more