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Poltergeist (1982), how is the wife only 32 when their daughter is 16?
- Thread starter Cybersai
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it's funny, given that this is a video games forum I thought he would've at least said he was 35
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Alright it's time for some math
OP is 32 now
2018 - 1982 = 36
So OP was -4 when the movie came out
I'm dying right now.
Now I have to go back and read what I skipped over....
OP, I know someone that had a baby that young or maybe younger in the 70's or 80's. It wasnt like a unicorn sighting back then.
Hell, the song Babies Having Babies by Terry Tate came out in 1989.
I think they knew about this back then OP.....
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How do we know that op isn't just 3 children stacked on top of each other in a trench coat? I mean, really.
Maybe the most frustrating thing about this thread is that you noticed an interesting, certainly deliberate subtle detail about the family history that shades in their dynamic a little bit more, and you have no idea what to do with it.
It's an efficient little bit of storytelling that I don't think I picked up on before.
It's an efficient little bit of storytelling that I don't think I picked up on before.
Ye I think the age limit is 13, because I'm 16 and have posted my age and haven't gotten a warning or anything. But yeah cyber Sami is the best poster on the board.
My sister had her kid at 16. It can be an unfortunate set of circumstances, but it happens.
Looks like they made it on just fine though.
No one gave a shit about soooo many things back in the 80s and even 90s. It was both kinda fucked up and refreshing compared to today, depending on what we're talking about. Though in this case if both were teens when she got pregnant then it really is a big who cares, even by today's standards. Teens are horny and fuck all of the time. It'll be that way forever.
I mean this was in the 80s too
I mean this was in the 80s too
Or middle and high school in general. Teen pregnancy is kind of normal
According to that graphic someone earlier in the thread posted, only 2.4% of every 1,000 female teenagers have births so
Not really lots
In a country of 300+ million people that's still a lot of people. Millions of people.
No GTFO, it's not normal.
It happens, and teens do have sex, but teen pregnancy isn't a normalcy. It is more common than most of us are probably comfortable with, especially given the kind of support systems in place.
Speaking of the US of course (where Poltergeist takes place)
I mean it was pretty normal when I was in school. Kids definitely do need a better support system and access to methods of contraception if they're gonna be having sex, though.
Well, add that up over time. Millions of people. And "only" 750k per year! Your math is wrong. 4 million or so births a year you're looking at like 100k teen births a year. Adds up over time though. But yes just on an annual basis if that 2.4 percentage is accurate it isn't a huge number annually, so it is pretty uncommon.
It's also been dropping rapidly though. So when poltergeist came out teen pregnancy was far less uncommon.
https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm
Even if you apply a 2.4 percentage for the last 40 years or so at a 4 million annual birthrate millions of people were born to a teenage mother. Approx 4 million people. If you factor in the actual numbers on an annual basis for the last 40 years it would be much higher than that.
If the GOP keeps attacking abortion and birth control I would actually expect that 2.4% to reverse course as well and start growing.
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I was in high school from 2002-2006 and there definitely were pregancies. We had class sizes of only around 100 and there were a few in each graduating class. So anecdotally that 2.4% is pretty accurate. It happens, especially when you prioritize abstinence and some parents do too and don't even talk about BC. People do have kids at 16 and even younger than that, but yeah it isn't super common.