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Dinosaurs Grew Fast and Bred Young
Smivs writes "It is thought that dinosaurs were able to breed before they were fully grown, much like todays mammals. This ensured that they could breed before they were predated in the violent world of the Mesozoic era. Calcium-rich medullary bone, which, in birds, is used to produce egg shells, was found inside the fossilized shin-bones of two specimens: the meat-eating Allosaurus and the plant-eater Tenontosaurus.Sarah Werning and Andrew Lee of the University of California, Berkeley, deduced from growth rings inside the bone that the two females were aged eight and 10, very young for dinosaurs, which lived to about 30. 'This shows us beyond any doubt how fast dinosaurs grow,' said Kevin Padian, a professor at UC Berkeley's Museum of Palaeontology. 'They're growing as fast as big birds and big mammals.'"
The Bible doesn't say anything about age of consent. It is stupid people who can't see past their own culture who manufacture this crap up.
HIV can also spread from the mother to the fetus. Those children under 15 could be a population of children who received the virus from their mother, but have not yet died of the virus.
Although it is possible that some portion of those under-15 children could be sexually active, as well. However, if you scroll further down the same page, you'll see that of the three age groups under 15 (2-4, 5-9, and 10-14), the youngest of the three actually has the highest percent prevalence. This could be indicative of a high rate of transfer of the virus from mother to fetus, with the infected newborn generally living to be around 4 years old.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
This is the same fear-mongering pseudo-statistic that gets thrown out in debates in the US from time to time. You do realize, don't you, that the phrase "teen pregnancy and abortion" can also include people between the ages 16 to 19? A year-by-year analysis, I suspect, would reveal that there are very few pregnancies in South Africa in the 13 to 15 year-old set, since poor nutrition delays the onset on menses. This don't mean that there aren't children being forced to have sex too early, just that pregnancy statistics are worthless for judging that statement. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if, due to better nutrition, the US led the world in per-capita pregnancies among 13-15 year olds, not because more US kids are having sex than anywhere else, but because the ones that do are much more likely to become pregnant.