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Article: The Rowan Report: May that young woman's tribe increase
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- Indianapolis Recorder
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- November 6, 1998
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Indianapolis Recorder
11-06-1998
The Rowan Report: May that young woman's tribe increase
The teenager was boasting about the way she had put down a man seeking a one-night stand: "He asked if I didn't feel the need to prove I'm a woman. I said, "Hell, I can stand naked in front of my mirror and see that!'"
I took that as anecdotal, though slim, evidence hat American teenagers are reversing somewhat the sexual revolution that has drawn record numbers of them into unwed and often tragic pregnancies.
I wanted to believe that this girl symbolized a new commonsense knowledge that the sucker - the ultimate victim - in these early sexual encounters (shacking up and adventures into parenthood) is ...