childbearing

I haven’t read the Twilight series for a number of reasons and had no plans to start any time soon. After the wellspring of negative reaction to Breaking Dawn, the series-ender, I can’t say I feel as though I’m missing anything.

I just post this stuff to get it out of my craw and off my saved Favorites. I don't expect that people will let such news affect their public affairs passivity. First, from Reuters, "Teen births tilt up, unmarried rate hits record":
The birth rate for teenagers increased in 2006 in the United States for the first time since 1991, while childbearing among unmarried women surged to the highest

Economics may be understood not just as the study of how money flows, but more broadly, how value is exchanged. Because value is found in things other than the coin of the realm, economic theories can be used to assess how those things work. Human relationships is one example.