Paige Donner: Juno Gets Knocked Up

Now that Juno sports a crown-boasting 4 Oscar noms while its close kinfolk, and box office behemoth Knocked Up has nary an Oscar mention, I see it as a worthwhile endeavor to take a minute and look at this insidious piece of social engineering and what it actually propagandizes for our young folks... albeit packaged in "whip-smart" and "bitingly funny" dialogue. Just the Facts: Juno gross box office to date: $87,000,000 Knocked Up gross box office to date: $219,000,000 (worldwide) A quick glance at a few websites, referenced below, and also Wikipedia, yielded the following information, compiled here : Data Snapshot from the Annie E. Casey Foundation The poverty rate for children born to teenage mothers who have never married and who did not graduate from high school is 78 percent. This compares to 9 percent of children born to women over age 20 who are currently married and did graduate from high school. Background on Teenage Childbearing Given their lower ... (link)