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Misplaced Blame: The Real Roots of Population Growth (New Report)

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Alan Durning and coauthors are on the leading edge of innovative views that are replacing 20 years of shopworn, often racist official views of teenage pregnancy, immigration, and population issues. With Washington state's Advancing Solutions to Adolescent Pregnancy, these authors show how America's destructive policies toward the young, including high rates of poverty, poor health services, and tolerance for family violence, create the very "epidemic" of teenage motherhood policy makers piously deplore, and how Canada's (and to a lesser extent, Seattle's) more generous approaches reduce teen motherhood considerably. This is a futuristic roadmap not only to population issues in the Pacific Northwest bioregion, but one with national implications as to how the U.S.'s cold policies toward its young people unnecessarily contribute to overpopulation.