1) The earlier the pregnancy, the better the egg and therefore the healthier the baby. Every relevant health threat in the first year that is not due to genetics or extreme environmental stress or malnourishment has a very strong link to maternal age.

2) The earlier the first child, the more children a woman has. (But this does not apply to males) More than half the world is committing demographic suicide. It will be a cultural, social, and economic catastrophe as it kicks in - unless we start reversing it, and fast!! America is one of the few countries that is not committing this suicide.

3) The more young mothers there are (and the younger some mothers are), the less stigma for all of them, and therefore the less stigma for young sex. You cannot hide young sex under the carpet if your maternity wards are full of 15 year-olds. That will be, if the trend does indeed reverse, the most liberating thing for teen girls sexuality ever.

4) The more young mothers there are, and the younger some mothers are, the more that the current system of education and labour will crumble from the sheer pressures of supply and demand. The plain stupid, or plain evil, I no longer even know, public education system, is not and cannot be designed to accommodate large numbers of pupil-mothers (or pupil-fathers for that matter). The huge money grabbing rackets in college education (and esp. so in the USA) will fall because young parents will see the cost/benefit for what it really is. The absurd labour market restrictions for youth, and for doesn't-have-an-ivy-league-degree will also fall because all the young parents will demand, and eventually create, jobs that hire them.

5) The less stigma young mothers (and fathers) have, the more girls and boys will be having sex, because parenthood will not be seen as a reason to be chaste. In turn, this will benefit us, whether or not we even want it or seek it, through the greater sex-positivism and child-positivism of younger generations.

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9) (though it actually goes after 5, as it is another pragmatic, not ideological reason) It creates a feedback loop. Daughters whose mothers were themselves young mothers, tend to in turn become young mothers. This effect remains strong even if they were themselves procreated at a later age. And the feedback loop can work in reverse too; as a matter of fact it is part of the reason for demographic suicide. After WW2, increasing numbers of women fully entered the labour force. They increasingly delayed their first pregnancies because of that. Their daughters in turn further delayed them, and so on. You end up with the negative long-term growth of Japan, Spain, Italy, East Germany, mainland China, Cuba, and, yes, Iran too. In this case the feedback loop would mean that the more young mothers, and the younger some of them are, today, sets up the scenario for all their daughters (whether procreated at 14, 24, 34 or 44) to be more likely to in turn become young mothers, and some of them even younger than Mom was. This effect, of course, will only be perceivable when the daughters of these young mothers reach fertility themselves. But it will exist - and reinforce all the other trends.


Those are the practical reasons. I have ideological reasons too. All are related to my own conservatism, so you might not want to read them:

6) I do think that p.i.v. should be reserved primarily for procreation, or at least under the understanding that procreation is a likely secondary effect. I think it is likely that this trend will lead to greater diversification of sexual activities, into non-p.i.v. and same-gender activities, when sexual pleaure is sought but not procreation; all of which I regard as positive developments. And there is some evidence that all of these trends are indeed happening.

7) I do think that sex should be risky. Like every other activity, sex should have some amount of risk, and it is in striking the balance between risk and benefit where people can learn, in every sense, from the activity. I think risk-free sex encourages not learning, or much slower learning, from your sexual activity. Because of this, I do like it that less teens are using birth control, that more are resorting to rhythm, and that more are friendly to the idea of keeping a baby.

8) I do think that the "delay sex" or "only risk-free sex" agendas pushed by each the mainstream Right and Left, respectively, are essential tools in infantilising teens, and important conditions in keeping them as second class humans. Delaying sex denies an actual capacity of agency to the minors: "you are not really thinking; your evil hormones are controlling you". Risk-free sex denies an actual capacity of action to the minors: "it's ok to seek pleasure, but you are too dumb to deal with the whole range possibilities, so we are here to protect you". More underage sex, esp. more unprotected underage sex, and esp. underage pregnancies, shoot at the line of all these concepts. All of them. They all liberate minors simply by happening.