Pregnant boys featured in Chicago teen pregnancy awareness campaign
In an effort to draw attention to teen pregnancy, the Chicago Health Department has recently released a public service ad campaign that shows boys who are pregnant.
The intention? To hammer home the point that teen pregnancy is not just the girl's responsibility.
The ads are currently displayed on city buses, trains, platforms and bus shelters, reports NBC, with particular attention to placing the ads around city high schools.
The city's teen pregnancy rate decreased 33 per cent last year, but sill remains one of the highest in the country, 150 per cent higher than the national average.
(WTF!?!?!
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Chicago isn't the first city in the U.S. to experiment with images of pregnant boys in teen pregnancy ads. A similar campaign ran in Milwaukee in 2009 and is credited with significantly dropping the city’s teen pregnancy rates by one third from 2006 to 2012.
Yet a very different sort of teen pregnancy ad campaign ran in New York City earlier this year. The controversial campaign was slammed with accusations of "slut shaming," as the ads featured images of toddlers saying, "Honestly, Mom... Chances are he won't stay with you" and "I'm twice as likely not to graduate high
school because you had me as a teen."
As for teen pregnancy rates in Canada, they have started to level off after a period of decline starting in the mid-1970s.
This leveling off occurred from 2006-2010 despite a teen pregnancy spike of more than 15 per cent in four provinces — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Manitoba.
But even better news is that we still have significantly lower teen pregnancy rates than our neighbours south of the border and in the U.K. The latest available statistics from 2008 shows Canada’s rate was 30.5, while in the U.S. was 58.0.
What are your thoughts on the best way to reduce teen pregnancy? Do you think the Chicago ad campaign will be effective?
SOURCE: http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shi...n-pregnancy-awareness-campaign-145713501.html
In an effort to draw attention to teen pregnancy, the Chicago Health Department has recently released a public service ad campaign that shows boys who are pregnant.
The intention? To hammer home the point that teen pregnancy is not just the girl's responsibility.
The ads are currently displayed on city buses, trains, platforms and bus shelters, reports NBC, with particular attention to placing the ads around city high schools.
The city's teen pregnancy rate decreased 33 per cent last year, but sill remains one of the highest in the country, 150 per cent higher than the national average.
(WTF!?!?!
)Chicago isn't the first city in the U.S. to experiment with images of pregnant boys in teen pregnancy ads. A similar campaign ran in Milwaukee in 2009 and is credited with significantly dropping the city’s teen pregnancy rates by one third from 2006 to 2012.
Yet a very different sort of teen pregnancy ad campaign ran in New York City earlier this year. The controversial campaign was slammed with accusations of "slut shaming," as the ads featured images of toddlers saying, "Honestly, Mom... Chances are he won't stay with you" and "I'm twice as likely not to graduate high
school because you had me as a teen."
As for teen pregnancy rates in Canada, they have started to level off after a period of decline starting in the mid-1970s.
This leveling off occurred from 2006-2010 despite a teen pregnancy spike of more than 15 per cent in four provinces — New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Manitoba.
But even better news is that we still have significantly lower teen pregnancy rates than our neighbours south of the border and in the U.K. The latest available statistics from 2008 shows Canada’s rate was 30.5, while in the U.S. was 58.0.
What are your thoughts on the best way to reduce teen pregnancy? Do you think the Chicago ad campaign will be effective?
SOURCE: http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/shi...n-pregnancy-awareness-campaign-145713501.html
