Sexual Revolution–The Day After

March, 1984

Just when American parents were adjusting to the idea that their teenaged daughters probably wouldn't survive both the sexual revolution and the Age of Permissiveness without getting knocked up, we received this disconcerting news: The birth rate for girls aged 15 to 19 has actually fallen by 45 percent since 1957. Put another way, the female children cresting puberty this side of the sexual revolution are about half as likely to end up accidental moms as were their own moms.What accounts for th...