{"id":1134,"date":"2014-08-07T19:26:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T00:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2014-08-07T19:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T00:26:45","slug":"canadian-report-shows-lgb-teens-more-at-risk-of-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1134","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Report Shows LGB Teens More At Risk of Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 British Columbia Health Survey showed that LGB adolescents were much more likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy than their straight peers. Gay and bisexual boys were more than four times more likely to cause a pregnancy. Lesbian and bisexual girls were more than twice as likely to become pregnant. The studied interviewed 30,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Via PinkNews:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Although data trends are still being analysed, [Dr. Saewyck]\u00a0suggested that \u201cthere definitely appears to be a link with experiencing discrimination and harassment. It may be that pregnancy involvement is a way to camouflage your sexual orientation to avoid or reduce your experiences of homophobic bullying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Dara Parker, executive director of Vancouver-based queer resource centre Qmunity, said she was \u201cnot entirely surprised\u201d by the findings.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 British Columbia Health Survey showed that LGB adolescents were much more likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy than their straight peers. Gay and bisexual boys were more than four times more likely to cause a pregnancy. Lesbian and bisexual girls were more than twice as likely to become pregnant. The studied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}