New figures on teenage pregnancy are out today. If the numbers were bad, they would be on the front page of every U.S. newspaper. President Bush would be blamed. But the numbers are good. Here’s the start of the Los Angeles Times story: “The teenage birthrate reached a record low in 2002, dropping to the lowest level since the government started keeping records in the 1940s, according to an annual report on the well-being of America’s children.”
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John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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