Teenage Transcendancy

I recently was given an article that talked about how the U.S. teen birth rate has been dramatically increasing over the past few years. Now, me being a guy, I have no idea how most of that works for those of the female gender and quite frankly I don’t want to know, but there is one thing I found interesting that the researchers who wrote the article said: one of the main reasons the teen birthrate has been declining so much over the past few years is because teens have developed the ability to better respond to environmental conditions and think of long term consequences more. I found this main idea of a paragraph within the article not only interesting because it actually credited teens with having abilities to respond to certain environmental stimuli (considering all the crap we get from psychologists saying we’re forever underdeveloped) but also because it showed how teenagers can pick up on certain trends in society and change them for what they feel is best for the future. It has finally come to be known that the majority of teens do not act completely on impulses and that now the majority of teens seem to be able to act with the knowledge of the consequences of our actions. While this may have been assumed by some, many people today do not think teens act with consequences in mind. As I said earlier, we’re constantly ratted on for being inconsistent and completely impulsive by most psychologists today, especially when they want to sell a new parenting book (not to offend all psychologists, however, most do actually good work that benefits rather than work that completely regards an entire age grouping as completely and utterly ineffective at decision making) and now, with this new article being created, we’re finally given at least some credit for not being as finicky and fickle as adults used to consider us. Now, if only this would be seen by everyone...