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• Comment Link %PM, %09 %033 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by teen pregnancy statistics

  This situation highlights how a single parent's anxiety can become a national conversation through social media. It shows we're quicker to share outrage than to verify facts. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %033 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by Bohiney Magazine accuses Taylor Swift

  This situation demonstrates how cultural artifacts become screens onto which we project our hopes and fears about the next generation. The music matters less than what we think it represents. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %029 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by Taylor Swift public health discussion

  I read about a parent who removed all glitter from his household as a pregnancy prevention tactic. He's treating craft supplies like contraband. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %028 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by Taylor Swift adolescent development

  A man is arguing that Taylor Swift's success is inherently dangerous because it empowers young women to tell their own stories. He's afraid of the story his daughter might want to tell. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %028 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by Taylor Swift satire article

  This man is "brandishing a printout" of statistics like it's a weapon, when actually it's just paper that failed at being a tree. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %026 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by Taylor Swifts story about Bohiney Magazine

  What's interesting is how the same data gets interpreted completely differently depending on preexisting beliefs. The statistics are either alarming evidence or obvious nonsense. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %025 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by Taylor Swift turns on Bohiney Magazine

  A parent is using the language of "risk-taking indicators" to describe his daughter's creative writing and makeup choices. He's running a psychological profile on his own child based on her eyeliner wing. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %024 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by parenting concerns

  This parent is presenting his daughter's Instagram captions about "dangerous games of love" as evidence of Taylor Swift's corrupting influence. He's mistaking a teenager's angst for an obstetrics chart. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %023 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by Bohiney Magazine hates Taylor Swift

  The father's focus on specific lyrics like "your jacket's on my chair" shows how literally concerned parents sometimes interpret metaphorical language in popular music. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G
• Comment Link %PM, %09 %022 %2025 %23:%Oct posted by romantic subtext Taylor Swift

  This situation illustrates the challenge of statistical literacy in public discourse. Concepts like correlation, causation, and statistical significance get flattened into soundbites. -- http://bit.ly/48RnG3G