Reason Writers Around Town: Kerry Howley on Juvenile Obesity, Pregnancy Pacts, and Fertility Rates in the Los Angeles Times

Reason Staff | 6.27.2008 3:00 PM

This past week, Senior Editor Kerry Howley has been debating the Manhattan Institute's Kay Hymowitz on juvenile obesity, teenage pregnancy, absentee fathers, and more.

Read all about it here.

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Naga Sadow 18 years ago

Pregnancy pacts? Seems kinda roundabout . . .
SugarFree 18 years ago

Juvenile Obesity, Pregnancy Pacts, and Fertility Rates

Jogging, condoms, don't wait until you're 40.

SOLV'D!
Dave B. 18 years ago

All the condoms in the world won't stop a girl who wants to get pregnant.
SugarFree 18 years ago

A flight of stairs will.
Art-P.O.G. 18 years ago

Damn, Sugarfree, that's coldblooded. 🙂
Brian Sorgatz 18 years ago

Judith Rich Harris, people! Judith Rich Fuckin' Harris!

How long will I be the only Reasonoid to appreciate the serious implications of that revolutionary book, The Nurture Assumption, for libertarian policy?

Kerry Howley disappoints me by seemingly not even knowing about the JRH angle.
Episiarch 18 years ago

A flight of stairs will.

It doesn't work, trust me.
Episiarch Jr. 18 years ago

What you mean, Daddy?
Episiarch 18 years ago

Prove it, Ezekiel.
Kolohe 18 years ago

A flight of stairs will.

I'm so pure of heart, at first glance, I thought he was still refering to an obesity countermeasure.
brotherben? 18 years ago

If the girls weren't so easy to catch, the boys wouldn't be so fat. It's all the girls' fault.

otoh, if the girls get sluttier, attendance among boys will go up.
mk 18 years ago

Kay,

Upon starting to read this, I heard this in my head as "M'kay" like in South Park.

I really need to get out more.
mk 18 years ago

SpongeBob SquarePants Wild Bubble Berry Pop-Tarts
Man, I would simply have to buy a box of those. In my defense, I would probably not buy a second one (unless they were really good).

I have a daughter. I can attest that it is hard t keep them active. I have probably spent about 15k on after school Tae Kwon Do classes and summer camps. I coached my daughter's soccer team. All these things help, but if they lose interest, that is that.

Mostly my daughter likes to sit in front of the computer and makes things like this
jtuf 18 years ago

Just let couples and individuals make their own reproductive choices. New England has plenty of abandoned farms, and it still managed to survive.

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